<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Geoff Shang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoff@quitelikely.com" target="_blank">geoff@quitelikely.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this.<div><br>
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote:<br>
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Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux?<br>
Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece?<br>
<a href="http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316" target="_blank">http://www.themarker.com/<u></u>technation/1.2111316</a><br>
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I'm running Debian Squeeze and the timezone database is fine. But I do subscribe to Debian updates.<br>
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If you want to be sure, run this command:<br>
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tzdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013<br>
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It should output something like this:<br>
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Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200<br>
Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800<br>
Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800<br>
Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And if you have Geoff's output, then your clock would be moving at the wrong time[1] :)<br>
<br></div><div>This is with a really up to date timezone data:<br><br>$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2013 <br>/etc/localtime Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0<br>/etc/localtime Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1<br>
/etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1<br>/etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0<br><br></div><div> (you can use "Asia/Jerusalem" too, but make sure /etc/localtime indeed contains the content of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel or /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem - or a symlink to one of them.)<br>
<br></div><div>You need version *2013d* of the database if you want the latest Israeli law.<br><br></div><div>-- Shimi<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/FCE198C8-66FD-4AA8-AB9D-958264583207/41529/2401.pdf#page=8" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/FCE198C8-66FD-4AA8-AB9D-958264583207/41529/2401.pdf#page=8</a><br>
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