[LINK] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

[Howard Lowndes]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> Craig Sanders and Howard Lowndes "discuss":
> 
>>>>there's something wrong with your FC4 systems, then.
>>>
>>>OK, smarty, so where is FC 4 getting its data from if not from the
>>
>>hey, you were the one who said it was "weird" instead of just accepting the
>>obvious.
> 
> 
> Gentlemen, gentlemen...! Please, let's not get into daft little "platform
> war" arguments! :)
> 
> It's clear to me that if seasoned systems administrators are having trouble
> then this time zone change is going to cause far more problems that we might
> have thought. I reckon it'd be better if proponents of open source software
> came out of this looking like the people who've made the transition
> successfully, not squabbling teenagers.
> 
> Howard, I think I have the solution for you -- which you may want to forward
> to the other lists...
> 
> On Fedora Core (and I'm guessing other Red Hat-like distributions too) it
> appears that /etc/localtime is NOT a symbolic link but a file copied from
> the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory tree during the configuration process.
> Downloading the latest tzdata file and running zic will update the zoneinfo
> tree but not /etc/localtime.
> 
> So, in the case of my Sydney-based FC4 machines, the following worked...
> 
>     cd <some temp directory>
>     wget ftp://elsie/nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006b.tar.gz
>     tar tzvf tzdata2006b.tar.gz
>     zic australasia
>     cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime
> 
> HTH,

See my recent post.  I have opted to symlink it.

> 
> Stil
> 
> 

-- 
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com>
When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux;
When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft.
-- 
Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states.