Thus spake Joel Reicher
> We switched over to daylight savings time here in Australia just recently
> and it reminded me how obscure the process would be for newbies to alter
> rtc_offset in the kernel without having to recompile. One for the FAQ?
> Something like...

You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel for DST.  Just set rtc_offset to
zero and symlink /etc/localtime to the proper file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

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