[arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

[Jonathan]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Geert Hendrickx <geert at hendrickx.be> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 23:27:50 -0400, Jonathan wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
>
> You want "zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2011" (not zgrep).
>
> Also you better symlink your /usr/share/zoneinfo timezone to /etc/localtime
> (instead of copy), so you'll get future updates automatically.
>
>
>        Geert
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Thank you, zdump is what I intended to write.

Arch initscripts will replace /etc/localtime on every boot so a
symlink will not remain.
http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/rc.sysinit#n224

john_f