Winter clock issues in linux

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this.

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote:

> Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux?
> Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece?
> http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316

I'm running Debian Squeeze and the timezone database is fine.  But I do 
subscribe to Debian updates.

If you want to be sure, run this command:

tzdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013

It should output something like this:

Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 
IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 
IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:59:59 2013 
IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:00:00 2013 
IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

So you can see when the time changes.

HTH,
Geoff.