DST issue
Matthew Gillen
me at mattgillen.net
Sun Mar 11 13:54:24 EDT 2007
John Chambers wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> | If you have some old systems where you applied the tzdata fixes
> | through zic;
> |
> | and zdump -v timezone |grep 2007 shows the right output
> |
> | and you are wondering why nothing appears to be paying
> | attention to that
> |
> | make sure that /etc/localtime is a symbolic link, rather than a
> | copy of the [old] compiled timezone in question.
> |
> | ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
>
> Funny thing: On my linux box, everything seems to hav epicked up the
> new DST change - except the KDE desktop. It's still showing the EST
> time. The obvious thing is to log out and in again. But that doesn't
> seem to be in the spirit of how things should be done on a unix
> system. Is there some trick to telling KDE that the DST rules have
> changed and it should reread the zoneinfo stuff?
>
> Otherwise I'll find some point where I don't mind killing everything
> I have running, and just Do It.
Well, the unix way would be to send the process a HUP signal to tell it to
reinitialize. Who knows if it will work with the particular app you're
talking about though...
Matt
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