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graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

As the topic suggests, you only need to do this if your system is pre-R5E50 (I have an R5D1 system that needed the fix). It's all due to Congress changing the start and end times for daylight savings time (DST) as part of some energy conservation bill which is effective this year. If you're running a release of KM that older than (I think) R5E50, you might be at risk of having messed up start/stop times.

Credit for this goes to George; I'm just posting it in this section. Here is the original thread.

Test Your System
Issue this command to see when your DST will start and stop:

galaxiejer · Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

Thank you! This saved me hours of both trying to figure out if R5D1 was already up to date as well as how to patch it.

It would be kinda cool if this was a prominent post around here as this likely affects quite a few people.

graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

Dunno what the breakdown is on users and versions of KM... I suspect most are up-to-date and this issue is non-existent on the current release.
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Pain · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 41

This info saved me from wasting a Friday night! Cool

Too Many Secrets · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 847 Location: LA, CA

Thanks! I'm now updated.

bigbro · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

Thanks for the very straightforward steps.

I had found how to do it, but hadn't taken the time to decipher exactly what I needed.

This worked!

Good Job!
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graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

Glad you both found it useful. Credit for this really goes to George. I just wrote it up as a formal howto.
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khrusher · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 889 Location: Groton, MA

Thanks, worked perfectly .... R5A16 here
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quaffapint · Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 40

It's only appropriate that since 'George' caused the problem, that now 'George' fixes it Wink

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Thanks, graysky, for the nice and simple writeup.

graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

Glad to contribute as always Smile

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pyranha · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Michigan

Thanks for the great instructions but it looks like the tzdata_2007a-3_all.deb file is no longer up on the site. Tried the tzdata_2007b-1_all.deb instead and it seemed to work just fine.
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graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

Thanks for the info -- I updated the guide accordingly.
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aclose · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Chicagoland

nice to know i'm now DST updated a week before it goes into effect. Smile

thanks for the howto.
now i really need to look into upgrading to the latest R5 release...

Khan · Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 34

graysky and George,
Thanks a ton for this quick and easy update to the DST mess. I'm just not ready to upgrade to R5E50 yet Razz

graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

Glad it helped you!
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