[TriLUG] Daylight savings time...

[David McDowell]

well... you'd need the equiv in 64 bit... (sorry to dbl reply)

On 3/8/07, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> eh... don't you just need to update the tzdata rpm?  That wouldn't
> affect the kernel would it?
> tzdata-2006m-3.el4  <- this ver has the updated timezone info
>
> run this to check:  zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>
> David
> http://www.notollson540.org
>
>
> On 3/8/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> > Here's what our "ghetto solution was". We used it for Windows (2000),
> > but I'm sure it could be applied elsewhere.
> >
> > 1) Turn off automatic dst updating.
> > 2) Manually set the timezone.
> > 3) Sync with a NTP server (which in our case, is a Windows 2003 machine,
> > that's already patched for DST), which syncs with time.nist.gov ...or
> > pool.ntp.org if you're picky ;).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of dsandif
> > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:47 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Daylight savings time...
> >
> > I have a 64 bit machine running RHELWS 4. The current kernel can not be
> > changed or up graded because it will destroy the raid setup due to the
> > fact that current kernels don't yet support the raid hardware so so only
> > the necessary applications are updated. I want to know can I get away
> > with just getting the necessary DST patch for my redhat OS without
> > having to up date the kernel as I've done so in the past. My hope is
> > once RHEL 5 comes out, I won't have to worry about this but until then,
> > I'll keep excluding the kernel update and get just the apps. Thxs.
> >
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