Re: Daylight Savings System Clock

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:00

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In <63184n$k92$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> ephemerae@goth6.or5g.a7u (Ben Hardy) writes:

>Quick question. What's the best way to tell a Linux 2.x machine that 
>Daylight Saving is in effect (without doing anything stupid like rebooting)?

Simply set your timezone correctly:

	ln -s /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime

(Or whatever timezone is appropriate for you).

Nick [all _my_ machines understand local and daylight savings time].
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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings System Clock
Date: 1997/10/27
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