[kwlug disc.] Timezone updates for archiac installs

[Abram Hindle]

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Subject: Re: [Discuss] clock change tonight
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:18:18 -0500
From: Abram Hindle <abez at abez.ca>
To: dmg at uvic.ca,  discuss at vlug.org
References: <20070311004816.2B92C3DE03E at selenium.cs.uvic.ca>

For older systems I found:

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6163042.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=tr

to be useful. Except the file name changed:

  # wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz'
  # tar -xzvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
  # /usr/sbin/zic -d zoneinfo northamerica
  # cd zoneinfo
  # cp -r * /usr/share/zoneinfo/

  # # for eastern
  # /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT | grep 2007
  # ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime

  # # for PST
  # /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT | grep 2007
  # ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime

abram

Daniel M. German wrote:
> I am not sure if this has been already discussed here so please
> forgive me if I am being redundant.
>
> I had to do a bit of searching but at the end found that the easiest
> way to adapt our machines to the new daylight savings time is by
> updating the tzdata package
>
> Your system should generate  something like this when you run the
> following command:
>
> $ zdump  -v /etc/localtime  | grep 2007
>
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
>
>
> I found this document very useful:
>
>
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=T1010301&uid=isg3T1010301&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
>
> I would expect we don't need a reboot, but I don't really know. We'll
> find out :)
>
> --
> Daniel M. German                  "Don't try to be like Jackie.
>                                    There is only one Jackie...
>    Jackie Chan ->                  Study computers instead"
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