Daylight Savings Time
As many of you know, daylight savings time is coming two weeks earlier this year and lasting an extra two weeks as well. For some locations the change has already happened but for the vast majority of us we will be turning our clocks ahead this weekend. If you use SimplyMEPIS 6.0 or later and have kept up with system updates you have nothing to worry about. Your system is ready for the time change this weekend. If you use an older version of SimplyMEPIS and have kept up with updates you should be ok as well. If you are unsure and just want to veriy that your system is ready to go you can run the following commands.
Open a console window by clicking on K->System->Terminal Program(Konsole)
First you need to find out what timezone you are in:
$ cat /etc/timezone
America/New_York
Next you will want to find out if your timezone information is correct:
$ zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
America/New_York Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
America/New_York Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
America/New_York Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
America/New_York Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
If your output says "Apr 1" instead of "Mar 11" then you may need to look into updating your system.
