DST changes in 2007

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Oct 20 11:58:34 EDT 2006


On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote:

> FYI, I've done some digging and it appears that since
> late 2005 RHAT have been shipping tzdata RPMs which (if
> you believe the changelog at the RHN site) will do the
> right thing when the DST apocalypse comes in March 2007.
>
> I assume (but have not confirmed) that Debian have been
> similarly proactive...

Yeah, I was just reviewing the changelog of tzdata 2006m (year-and- 
version) and had not appreciated how often *someone* *somewhere*  
changes their rules on DST. The "mth" change was released for FC5 on  
10-10:

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1681

Ted Roche
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