Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2071 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:36, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > >
> > > Darryl,
> > > Hopefully they will fix it, if not you can take a working zone file
> > > from 10.2 and use it to overwrite /etc/localtime.  It worked on our
> > > systems.
> >
> > I thought timezone has glibc dependencies. I would be hesitant to
> > stuff a package, or even a single file from a package, from one
> > version into another version, without knowing those dependencies
> > weren't going to be busted at all.
>
> I just tried my /etc/localtime from a 10.2 box on a 9.2 box and it 
> didn't work.  Still have the old DST dates.  :(

How did you test that? By calling zdump with a timezone name? That 
takes zonefiles from /usr/share/zoneinfo and not /etc/localtime.

> I've got an 8.2 box lying around as well :o  Custom app that has a 
> dependency on an old verion of Tk.  Porting, but still have to use the 
> 8.2 box.

I just tried a 10.0 file on an 8.1 box and it works. Since there are 
no changes to 10.2, it should work as well.

Check that /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime is a symlink to 
/etc/localtime, as it should be.

Try the following first:
 -- Backup (rename) your /usr/share/zoneinfo/ tree.
 -- Copy that complete tree from the 10.2 system to your older
    system.
 -- Check that it works by calling
	zdump -v PST8PDT | grep 2007
    It must output the March date and not the April date.
 -- If it does so, copy the appropriate zoneinfo file to
    /etc/localtime. Try again.

HTH,
	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod				Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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