[PLUG] DST Sunday morning - Check your system, Win users beware

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> As you know, they changed the algorithm for daylight savings time and it
> starts this weekend, two weeks earlier than previous years. Folks with
> older distros or who have not recently upgraded may want to check their
> time change dates with:

   Thank you for the reminder, Keith. The Slackware development team released
a fixed glibc-localzone a couple of weeks ago, and I apparently missed
seeing the notice in my inbox.

> The "drive off customers to Linux/Mac" team at Redmond is apparently
> working late these days.  Expect a LOT of angry Microsoft users
> driving home from work Monday.  Some are calling this "mini-Y2K".

   But, they'll be driving home an hour later so the commute should be easier
for those with the correct time.

Rich

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