<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I do not see why we have to install patches to change daylight saving.<br>It should be like it was on my Cisco router - just a change to the
<br>daylight saving setting, a simple adjustment of the numbers. Sure,<br>the Windows users probably need Microsoft to hand feed them a patch,<br>but even there, there should be the option to just change some<br>settings. And surely in the Linux world, having to download a patch
<br>is a bit extreme. I was very surprised to find that there was not a<br>simple setting in etc to change.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>It's a four-line patch on Linux also, but why make everyone do it by hand? You can get the gist of the change at
<a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/549">http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/549</a>. I am not sure whether the patch would be to the source, or to a tzdata table, as I'm currently in Canada and didn't need to care. However, I have a package management system so I don't have to manually make changes for things like this.
<br><br>(Microsoft have an editor for the timezone data available also, but will make updates available for free for supported OSes, and at great expense for unsupported ones.)<br><br>Craig