[olug] The Daylight Savings Time (US and Canada) Glitch

[Kenton Brede]

On 2/20/07, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Will the The Daylight Savings Time (US and Canada)
> Glitch affect Linux users OR just those M$ people?
> What abiout Mac?

Don't know about Mac but most Linux distros should be patched already.

To check if your system is patched run -

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

You should see "March 11th," if you do, your patched.

/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59
2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00
2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600

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