Re: [WBEL-users] new DST on WBL 3.0...

At Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:40:40 -0400 "Mike B." <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> At 3/11/2007 02:01 PM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> >On Sunday 11 March 2007 07:38 am, Robert Heller wrote:
> >
> > > What do I need to upgrade *besides* tzdata on a WBL 3.0 system to get
> > > it to recognize the new DST start date?
> >
> >Probably all you have to do is copy the right file
> >in /usr/share/zoneinfo and/or it's subdirectories to
> >your /etc/localtime file.  As always, make a copy of the old one first.
> ><snip>
> >That's the easy way; Mike B's info is good, but perhaps more than you
> >need <smile>.
> 
> That depends on whether the files in his /usr/share/zoneinfo tree 
> include the 2007 changes to the timezones he cares about.  His 
> question seemed to imply that they didn't, though his followup 
> message later shows your guess was correct.

My zonefiles are up-to-date -- I have tzdata-2006<mumble>el3 installed.
For some reason the /etc/localzone file did not get updated when the
tzdata package was updated, probably because my glibc is somewhat
out-of-date (I am not about to download an up-to-date set of glibc RPMs
over a slow dialup connection).  Doing the cp fixed things.

> 
> I'm in North America and mine (RH 7.2) did not have the updated zone 
> info, since they predated the 2005 law that moved the start and end 
> dates of DST.  They also didn't include a bunch of other zone changes 
> from around the world. Getting the updated source data files and 
> compiling them with zic, then moving the proper one into 
> /etc/localtime worked fine though.  Anyone else running an older 
> (built more than a couple of years ago) version of Linux might still 
> benefit from the link I found.
> 
> Any idea why Linux doesn't use a symlink for /etc/localtime?  That 
> would have let me skip the cp step and just build stuff in 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo and be done with it.  I'm not a unix expert, but 
> my understanding is that most unix versions use the symlink method for this.
> 
> -- Mike B.

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