[LBo] US Daylight Savings Time change

[Ray]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:33 pm, Dave Lerner wrote:
> As you may know, the US government decided to mess around with DST, so
> effective this year, DST starts on the second Sunday in March (March 11,
> 2007) instead of the first Sunday in April.
>
> Here's a way of telling whether your linux installation knows about the
> change:
>
> $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
> EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007
> EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007
> EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007
I'm assuming these numbers ^^ are based on local time?

incidentally, thread title should be NorthAmerica Daylight savings time 
(except for Arizona and Saskatchewan and ...)
Never mind, your right ;) 
Ray


> EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000