[ale] DST params?

Kenneth W Cochran kwc at TheWorld.com
Tue Nov 1 07:46:08 EST 2005


>Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:16:50 -0500
>From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] DST params?
>
>Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>> On Monday 31 October 2005 11:15 pm, Tim Watts wrote:
>> | Now that our illustrious Congress has changed the parameters for daylight
>> | savings time (it will start at the end of march and end in Nov starting
>> next
>> | year, I think)
>>
>> This madness is due to start in 2007. The easiest way is probably to run
>> a cron job every night that taps a U.S. time source.
>
>It's currently built into the kernel I believe, so I would expect
>patches will be available prior to the change.

man -k time
man -k timezone

-kc



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