A very quick way to turn off winter time for those who overslept

For those newbies who overslept at the weekend, and forgot to attend to turning off the translation of their Debian-systems for the winter time - this mini-article. Ways to do this - very fast, not claiming to be the most correct, but working. Two generations will be considered, before Lenny and after it respectively. Due to the fact that some servers work for years, the presence of such "antiquities" still takes place.

Etch

For older systems to Lenny, for example, Etch, tzdata is not foreseen, so let's apply the option of manually specifying the time zone:

We carry out
#tzconfig

Press " Y "
Receiving the next question
Please enter the number of the geographic area in which you live:

Select " 12) None of the above" and further to the question
Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones
You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities
Press Enter to view all of them again

write " GMT-6 " (for Yekaterinburg, GMT-4 for Moscow). We write exactly “minus”, do not ask why (I suspect that this is for the zones to the right of Greenwich, khe-khe).
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Lenny and above

If you have Lenny and fresh - everything is much easier. The updated tzdata package with version 2011 contains the correct time zone settings. Therefore, it is enough to install / update
#apt-get update
#apt-get install tzdata


Everything. For reliability, update the time from any time server using ntpdate.