North American DST Changes

General

As most North American users know by now, the U.S. gov't has mandated that DST changes start earlier beginning in 2007.

Being that Myth is heavily dependent on having the correct time information, having the correct time is crucial. Here is how update your time:

cd
mkdir tzinfo
cd tzinfo
wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz
tar zxf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
zic -d /tmp/zoneinfo northamerica
cd /tmp/zoneinfo
cp -r * /usr/share/zoneinfo

After performing the above commands, you should have new time zone info in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Next just run

timeconfig

to select your timezone. After setting your timezone, you may want to run

ntpdate 128.100.100.128

to sync with an NTP server (NOTE: this command does NOT set up ntpd for you, it's just a one-time sync).

Notes

• This worked for me on Slackware 10.2.0

Resources

LinuxQuestions.org

Time Zone Sources

Time Zone Sources FTP

General Daylight Time Info