[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Rick Smith]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:30:11PM -0500, Robert Supansic wrote:
> 3/14/03 5:54:33 AM, Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >Why not just set the timezone on your linux box to EST5EDT or
> >"American/New_York"?  My /etc/localtime is a symlink to the New_York file:
> 
> My fileserver IS set to the localtime EST TimeZone.  The problem is
> that it does not automatically turn over to EDT in the spring and then
> back to EST in the fall.  That is the purpose of the shell script. 

Let's see if I'm following:
  You set to EST and it doesn't change time so you wrote a script
  to do that and are sharing it with wplug.

  Lance proposes another method to achieve the same: to set
  timezone to EST5EDT or New_York, which is completely different from
  either EST or EDT.  It causes Linux to automatically switch
  at the right time.

Seems to me both ways will work.
Your way comes with the satisfaction and deeper
understanding that comes with writing a script.

-- Rick