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Re: DST and evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 8 09:41:39 2007
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:41:36 -0500
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> I think only the calendaring functionality of Evolution is affected; as
> far as I know, we have very few users of that functionality.
OK, having only glanced at the page, I'd assumed there would be a
problem with datestamps in outgoing mail, but I hardly have any data
to support that.
> On the bright side, that link helps to indicate the mysterious mechanism
> by which /etc/localtime is being updated; apparently the glibc rpm is
> taking care of it, via the tzdata-update program. How exactly this is
> invoked, I'm not sure; glibc obscures its RPM scriptlets by including a
> compiled program which is invoked by the postinstall step.
Ah, I'd even missed that. excellent.
Jonathon
