On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 09/21/2011 12:29 PM, Barton wrote: > >> Beginning this year, Ukraine is switching to year-round DST and will >> permanently reside in UTC+3 timezone (where it is now). Normally, the >> switch to UTC+2 would have occurred some time in October, but no >> longer. >> >> How would Arch Linux handle it for the users who do not have NTP >> configured? Would Arch somehow know not to switch the clock this year or >> should zoneinfo file for Kiev be updated to reflect this change and >> to avoid users' clocks being skewed? >> > > It looks like there's a fix to the tzdata package in the works to deal with > this: > > https://groups.google.com/**group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/** > browse_thread/thread/**a44d60ddb9bb6620?pli=1<https://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/a44d60ddb9bb6620?pli=1> > > So presumably, once that fix gets released upstream, Arch would pick it up > soon after. > > DR > You can check the current DST dates with "zgrep -v /etc/localtime | grep 2011" Once you get the updated package you can copy the new zoneinfo file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. John F.
