[Remind-Fans] Daylight Saving Time

[Larry Hamilton]

I have not seen anything on the list about the change to Daylight Saving 
Time.

I found this little trick to check if DST is on the new or old way on *nix:

date -d '27 March'

If it returns Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2007, and not Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 
EST 2007, you know your system has the new setting.

You will need to locate the specific fix for your distribution of *nix.

This relates to Remind because I kept getting "DST starts" on the old 
date. I kept going around and around trying to find this. I then 
remembered the file defs.rem. I renamed it to holidays.rem for my 
purposes. Once I corrected the DST start and end dates, it solved my 
"problem".

I checked the latest download for remind, and the defs.rem in the 
examples directory has a date of 7 May 2001. I suggest that this be 
updated to the new start and end dates.

For the sake of anyone else using this file, or these definitions, who 
is not sure how to change them, here it is.

There are two lines in the section #USHOLS. I have commented the 
original line, and have the new date below. DST now starts the second 
Sunday of March, and ends the first Sunday of November.

;REM  Sun Apr  1 ++2    MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST starts%" %b
REM  Sun Mar 8 ++2    MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST starts%" %b

;REM  Sun [_last(Oct)]    MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%"
REM  Sun Nov 1 ++2    MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%"

43folders.com's remind wiki cookbook page has this way to define the 
current DST. However, the copy of defs.rem on wiki.43folders.com still 
has the old definition.

-- 
Larry Hamilton