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Re: [PLUG] Daylight Savings Time
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
> You'll need to update your zoneinfo file (mine is
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London, yours will probably be
> America/NewYork or something). You can download new zoneinfo data from
> here:
> ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzsource*.tar.gz
>
> And you can build new zone files with:
>
> mkdir -p tzgen/{posix,right}
> tar -xzf tzsource*.tar.gz
> for zone in africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica etcetera factory solar87 solar88 solar89 backward systemv ; do
> /usr/sbin/zic -d tzgen -L /dev/null -y tzsource/yearistype.sh tzsource/${zone}
> /usr/sbin/zic -d tzgen/posix -L /dev/null -y tzsource/yearistype.sh tzsource/${zone}
> /usr/sbin/zic -d tzgen/right -L tzsource/leapseconds -y tzgen/yearistype.sh tzsource/${zone}
> done
>
> The resulting files need to be installed to wherever your distro keeps
> zoneinfo files, presumably also /usr/share/zoneinfo .
>
OK thanks, would these files be available for download for a specific
distribution? I am using SUSE 7.3 on this particuliar system.
Doug
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