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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!mail_gw.fwall.telecom.com.au!cdn_news.telecom.com.au!usenet From: rgerlach@inoss.telecom.com.au (Roland Gerlach) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Changing the Day Saving Time`s date ! Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 20:56:46 GMT Organization: Telstra Australia Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <51cvtv$su4@cdn_news.telecom.com.au> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <DxML1E.70M@on.bell.ca> <1996Sep13.164018.17480@lts.sel.alcatel.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.74.34.52 To: aramas@lts.sel.alcatel.de X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27243 comp.os.linux.misc:129072 comp.unix.solaris:82510 In article <1996Sep13.164018.17480@lts.sel.alcatel.de>, aramas@lts.sel.alcatel.de ( Aramas Yarijanian KS/EIC1 60/2/162 #49189) wrote: >Generally european countries switch from 'day saving time' to winter time >on the last Sunday of September. >This year this is not the case !! >Germany switches to winter time on the last Sunday of October ! > >I found a file called 'europe' in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directroy >where you can change these rules for each timezone and country. >Does anyone know how can I activate the modifications I did in that >file ? Rebooting didn`t help :-( > >Does anyone know how can I deacyivate the automatic switching from DST to >winter time and vice versa ??? > >Thank you very much for your help and suggestions in advance ! > > >Aramas Yarijanian, :-) > >email: aramas@lts.sel.alcatel.de You need to run zic. Cheers, Roland.