Question about DST changes in the US

[tokyoi at mac.com]

Kerry Miller wrote:
> I've got several different flavors of Fedora Core running both at home and
> work and have been researching how to make changes to when it switches
> from standard time to daylight saving time.  The only thing I found was
> that it links to files under /usr/share/zoneinfo but those don't look like
> text files.  how do I edit those files and then compile them to make the
> DST changes at the right time?
>
> Or, is there another fix for this?  Is there a patch or updated RPM to
> replace the files in /zoneinfo?

Just off the cuff: If your system is set to use UTC, local time and 
changes will be applied when Fedora boots.

Best wishes,

Ian