On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>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.