Keith, After doing such on a 2.7 or 2.6 machine what does "zdump -v EST5EDT | grep 2007" Report?
Bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Farrar Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. You can clone the relevant parts of a working patch for Solaris 8 with a short shell script (worked fine on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7). -KF #!/bin/sh ## shell script hack to force solaris DST zonefile updates ## - use cat to preserve hard links between zonefiles ## - only update pre-existing files ## unpack Solaris 8 DST patch 109809-04 under /var/tmp/ ## then run this script on Solaris 2.6 / 7 systems ## Keith Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cd /var/tmp/109809-04/SUNWcsu/reloc/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo # for f in `find Mideast -type f -print` for f in `find * -type f -print` do if [ -f /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/$f ]; then cat $f > /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/$f ls -lg /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/$f fi done [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am working on getting Solaris 2.7 compliant with the new DST changes for March 2007. I downloaded the latest updates from: > > wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz > > Ran zic on northamerica > Then tested with a zdump: > > > zdump -v EST5EDT |grep 2007 > > > which still reported April when the DST would occur. What am I missing? this worked for linux.
