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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 19:48 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 24 July 2005 19:11, Stan Goodman wrote:
Where is the TZ environment variable that governs the seasonal transitions for the selected time zone. The winter > summer transtion here is calculated by the Hebrew calendar, not the Gregorian, and a Gregorian TZ variable won't work right. In OS/2 I had to make a script to compute the transtion dates, and I suppose I will have to do the same thing for SUSE.
I don't really know about this, but reading the timezone information in the glibc source code, it looks like the "Israel" timezone takes into account the rule they call 'Zion', and according to the text it's fairly up to date, they include a law from March 2004 passed by the Knesset setting DST rules from 2005 onwards
So as far as I can see, you shouldn't have to do it yourself, just set the timezone to Israel in YaST and the rest should take care of itself
And wait for the shysters that run our government (in the USA) change the dates for DST by adding three weeks in the spring and one in the fall. Won't that cause a lot of confusion for the programmers. And think about all of the legacy systems that will have to be updated/programs changed. And these are supposed to intelligent people. I hate to think of all of the children that will have more darkness to endure in the morning either walking to school or waiting for the school bus. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge