[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Lance Tost]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Robert Supansic 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.

Don't use EST.  EST is for areas that don't use DST.  Use EST5EDT or
American/New_York.  Then it'll automatically display the correct time for
EST and EDT.

When we go from EST to EDT and vice versa, the actual time on the machine
does not change.  The only thing that changes, is the display of the time.
If you do a 'date -u' before and after the switch to EDT, you'll see that
the actual time hasn't change.

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>