I did a work around...

The problem was zic and zdump were not being pulled from the patch by
the script.  I extracted the binaries and put them in /usr/sbin then
just took the src files from the patch and placed them in
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src.  After a quick zic northamerica and reboot,
DST was reporting properly.

If you do not pull zic and zdump from the patch, they will continue to
report the incorrect data as the old zic will not compile the new
timezones correctly.

Daniel Raymer
Unix Systems Administrator
ITS
Vanderbilt University

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To: Raymer, Daniel L.
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Subject: Re: Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix.

> Sadly, this script still leaves me with zdump -v showing April 1st for

DST changeover.

Yeah, it appears you need to do a couple things - one is change from the

old school "?STx?DT"  TZ format (to US/Central for example) and the
other 
is to ditch the solaris zdump for the nih one.  I'm still hoping for a 
response but it was indicated that Sun holds that the ?STx?DT format 
precludes using any zoneinfo files - not sure where it gets the info
then 
(one of libc or libdl? time()?) but ....

Not sure if the "problem" extends beyond just zdump, that is, what other

programs might not use the zoneinfo info

a


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