[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Lance Tost]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Rick Smith wrote:
> 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.
>

There are at least a 1000 other reasons to write a script.  Why re-invent
the wheel?  And why mess with changing the system clock like this?  It's
generally something you don't want to do.  Setting the appropriate
timezone only changes the display of the time, not the time itself.

-- 
Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>