** Reply to message from Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:48:45 +0200
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.
Yes, that's the rule to which I wrote the script.
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
I've already set the timezone to Israel, as a matter of course. I'm flabbergasted, and impressed by what you say. Also by the fact that I was able to set the clock to display the date according to the Hebrew calendar, albeit only in short format. Arabic and Persian calendars are also available. Thanks... -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 I hate puns. Except synonym puns, which are good with coffee for breakfast.