RE: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Time and Suse 9.x and 10.0
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates?
Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the time change?
SUSE Linux 9.1, 9.2 are out of support and have likely not got the DST fixes. For all others, if you installed all online updates, your system should be fine. Running programs will even pick up the timezone changes on the fly, without need to restart. ~~~~ Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 machines to get them on the new DST standard? Many thanks, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 3/6/07, James D. Parra
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates?
Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the time change?
SUSE Linux 9.1, 9.2 are out of support and have likely not got the DST fixes.
For all others, if you installed all online updates, your system should be fine.
Running programs will even pick up the timezone changes on the fly, without need to restart.
~~~~
Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 machines to get them on the new DST standard?
Many thanks,
~James
Almost everything in Linux is internally GMT / UTC. Why not just change the user logins on those machines to report time in GMT for a few weeks. Next month you can put them back to reporting in DST if you really need it. Personally I would just assume keep everything in GMT. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The timezone source data is changed in glibc, you should be able to update these on your old systems and regenerate the data manually. See Uli's blog entry http://udrepper.livejournal.com/15543.html Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
James D. Parra wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
We are running Suse 9.1 through 9.3 and 10.0 in our shop. What is the best method to get DST settings changed to reflect the new DST dates?
Will running online update automatically fix DST? Is there a config file that can be changed or viewed to confirm that the system is ready for the time change?
SUSE Linux 9.1, 9.2 are out of support and have likely not got the DST fixes.
For all others, if you installed all online updates, your system should be fine.
Running programs will even pick up the timezone changes on the fly, without need to restart.
~~~~
Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 machines to get them on the new DST standard?
Many thanks,
~James
Here's a how-to to bring your zone files up to date http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-03-06 11:03, James D. Parra wrote:
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Thank you for the response. So what file can be modified on the 9.1 & 9.2 machines to get them on the new DST standard?
Copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/* from any updated system over to the 9.1 and 9.2 systems. Then copy the appropriate file from that tree onto /etc/localtime (note that this file might be a symlink in some versions; it isn't in 9.3). -- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- HG Wells -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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