Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

["Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <jesus.salvo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:

> So back to the question ... should our linux computer shows "EST" when 
> we are under daylight savings time ?
> It just does not feel / look right keeping the same timezone 
> abbrevation for both standard and daylight savings time in NSW, 
> regardless of whether or our  government makes an official timezone 
> abbrevations.
Maybe useful or not, maybe it will even __break__ things, but I gave 
this a try on one of my test servers:

[root@fedora jsalvo]# export TZ=AEST-10AEDT,M10.5.0/2,M3.5.0/3

Now let's watch it change from standard time to daylight savings time 
abbreviation:

[root@fedora jsalvo]# date --set='2004-10-31 01:59:45'
Sun Oct 31 01:59:45 AEST 2004
[root@fedora jsalvo]# date
Sun Oct 31 01:59:54 AEST 2004
[root@fedora jsalvo]# date
Sun Oct 31 01:59:58 AEST 2004
[root@fedora jsalvo]# date
Sun Oct 31 03:00:00 AEDT 2004