RE: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix.

-----Original Message-----
From: Levenglick, Jeff=20
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:04 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: Keith Farrar; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: RE: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix.=20

Try this link:

http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html

Ibm's tool:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/dst/index.html

hp's tool:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/DST-US.html

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Keith Farrar; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix.=20


>No luck, least-wise not w/ the 'old' CST6CDT formated TZ-style. Even
using=20
>the 2.8 updated zdump/zic.  It appears (from truss) that using these=20
>formats ignores the zoneinfo files. The CST6CDT zoneinfo file does
contain=20
>the correct DST date (I copied one to a new TZ name and tested that w/
the=20
>zdumps).  The zdump.c code for sol I can find:
>http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/loficc/crypto/usr/src/cmd/zdump/
zdump.c

Yes, POSIX requires that it ignores the zoneinfo files.

>appears to be a port of the NIH code which dutifully opens the
appropriate=20
>zoneinfo file. I can compile that and it works - even if I use the sol=20
>zoneinfo files. Hmm, is this only a zdump (pre 10 (at least) anyway)=20
>problem? That  is, after changing my TIMEZONE to use US/Central is
there=20
>another test to see if solaris will have an issue?


Why can't you just install the zoneinfo files and set the TZ to
America/Whatever?

Casper


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