Hi everyone,

I work at company where we use slackware linux. Good old President Bush has just approved a new bill to make it so the time will change for daylight savings on a different day than normal. The first time this will become and issue is march. I have searched long and hard for a update of some kind for this, but havent seen one available yet.

Anyone else going through a similar problem and find a resolution yet?

Thanks

I'm expecting the ntp servers to take care of it.

Check this out:
http://forums.winxpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=19482

It talks about this and has links for fixes for Red Hat and Suse. i could not find anything about slack. But I would think that if you have it setup to query a ntp source, then you shouldn't have to worry about it.

We just got Daylight Saving where I live for the first time.

For Debian, there was an updated "tzdata" package that fixed the issue (where I live). Simply querying a NTP server does not adjust for Daylight savings, since (in most cases) the system clock is set to UTC, and then an offset is added to UTC depending on your local time zone.

Slackware may get an update for this in time. If it does, then just apply it and the change should happen automatically in March. Otherwise, you may need to create a new timezone file - search google for how to do this. Basically, this file tells the kernel what date to adjust the time.

--Ian