From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Subject: Re: User tools for March 11
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:40:39 +0000
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:19, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Hi!
> In the United States, some idiots have decided that the year 2000 scare
> wasn't enough so they changed the start date for daylight savings time
> from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March.
> Does anybody know if there are new tools like `hwclock` and `date`?
> Will new 'C' runtime libraries be necessary as well?

Unless there are utilities homebrewing locales, glibc (locales) should be the 
only package that requires an update. Some distros may sub-package this 
as "timezone".

SLES got an updated "timezone" package for the Western Australian changes, but 
I'm not sure about the US changes.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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