Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2063 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2007-02-01 12:33, Coach-X wrote:
> > > Quite true; FWIW, I did enter a "bug report against an unlisted
> > > product"
> > > on the bugzilla. It isn't really a bug report in the usual bugzilla
> > > sense, and I got the distinct impression that report form is intended
> > > for commercial products. Cross your fingers and hope :-)
> > >     
> >
> > 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.

/etc/localtime is just a data file, and thus does not use any shared 
libraries.

I just tried to copy the PST8PDT zonefile to an old SUSE 8.1 that I 
have still running in an VMware -- and it works. Since the format is 
compatible so long back, it will work with all other intermediate 
releases as well.

	Joachim

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