-----Original Message----- From: Brian Jackson [mailto:brian@brianjacksonphoto.com] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:42 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change
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. :(
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.
Adjusting DST manually for now.
So, I adapted the following instructions for Canada to fix DST on 8.2 and 9.x systems on my US systems. https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/112/3615274_ f.SAL_Public.html Basically, I did the following: To verify that I had to fix DST: * zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007 * Grabbed a copy of tzdata2007a.tar.gz from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub. * Extracted the files from it. * zic northamerica To filter out regions that didn't have tzdata info in older distros. * grep US backward > backward.america * zic backward.america To check that it worked: * zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007 To relink localtime setting: * zic -l US/Pacific Since I did my testing in VMware, I reset the date to 1:59:55 on 3/11 to watch that it rolled over to 3 am. Also reset it to 1:59:55 on 4/1 to see that it rolled over to 2 am. Anyway, it seemed to work as far as the OS seemed concerned. Hope this helps. -p ~~~~~~~ Pat Hirayama IT / Server Operations Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center phirayam@fhcrc.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org