Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Mar 2007 15:40 UTC, submitted by editingwhiz
If you live in the United States, you are probably affected by a law passed by Congress in 2005 which turned the daylight savings system upside-down. Computers are, obviously, affected by this as well. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains how to update your Linux computers to the new DST rules: "To make sure your Linux system knows when DST is, this year and ever on, you need to update your zoneinfo file, or replace it with one that contains the new rules." In addition, even though Apple has provided a fix for Mac OS X, 
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RE: They turned it around?
by tmanop2006 on Tue 6th Mar 2007 19:56
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RE: They turned it around?
by echo.ranger on Tue 6th Mar 2007 19:59
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Because they were bored and noticed it hadn't changed much in the last 20 years?
Truthfully, they claim its to reduce energy consumption. Some statistic I read stated it is supposed to reduce the US dependency on 150,000 barrels of oil throughout the year. The worst part is there is a footnote in the bill that gives Congress the option to reverse the change in the next year or two if the gain doesn't prove worthy.
I wonder how much of that "gain" is now lost with all the IT departments that have to spend time updating DST files on servers.
RE[2]: They turned it around?
by tmanop2006 on Tue 6th Mar 2007 20:07
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Well, I'm not from U.S. But I do wonder: Why exactly did they change it? Environmental/energy issues? Biological/health reasons? Something other reason?
Just curious.