Since my linux kernel is not up to date enough for apt-get install tzdata, I had to do it manually, thanks to TechRepublic, it took only a couple minutes to get the job done.
Excerpt from "http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6163042.html"
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Manually updating
In cases where the port or package you need to update your time zone configuration is not available, you should be able to change the configuration yourself almost as easily. Before downloading the tzdata file according to the following instructions with the wget command, double-check to make sure you have the right filename by visiting ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/. You should do your work in a temporary directory when performing these actions so you will not accidentally overwrite important files. The following set of commands works on most systems, assuming that the appropriate tzdata file for download is tzdata2007b.tar.gz:
# wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz'
# tar -xzvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
# zic -d zoneinfo northamerica
# cd zoneinfo
# cp -r * /usr/share/zoneinfo/
At this point, you should check to ensure the correct data is in place. The following includes two checks. One is for a time zone file, and the other is for a city file, where you should choose the city in the indicated directory that is nearest your location.
# zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT | grep 2007
# zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago | grep 2007
The output of both these commands should display the newly updated Daylight Saving Time dates. You may have to use the ln -s command, possibly with the -f option as well, as indicated in the following example. This will point your /etc/localtime file at the correct data for your time zone. The output of the zdump command, as presented earlier in this article, will show whether it matches expectations for the new Daylight Saving Time schedule. For example, if your time zone is Central (US), you might use this command string:
# ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT /etc/localtime
The ln command creates a "link" between a target file and a local filename, so that both point at the same data. The -s option makes it a "symlink" or "softlink", so that one reference is the "real" file and the other is just a "shortcut" to it. Making changes by writing to one affects the other for reading purposes; see the ln manpage for more details. The CST6CDT listed here relates to the Central Standard Time and Central Daylight Time settings for time zones, with a Standard Time offset of -6 hours from Greenwhich Mean Time.
All you really need to know, if that doesn't make sense to you, is which set of letters stands for the name of your time zone. The following simple table may help, though it is not comprehensive:
Time Zone Abbreviation
Eastern EST5EDT
Central CST6CDT
Mountain MST7MDT
Pacific PST8PDT
This should cover the most common North American time zones.
Once this is done, you can delete the contents of your temporary directory where you initially downloaded the tzdata file, and you shouldn't have any further problems with automatic Daylight Saving Time adjustments on your system.
At least, until the next time Congress passes a law that sends your IT department into a panic.
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