> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change
> 
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:36, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > >
> > > Darryl,
> > > Hopefully they will fix it, if not you can take a working 
> zone file
> > > from 10.2 and use it to overwrite /etc/localtime.  It 
> worked on our
> > > systems.
> >
> > I thought timezone has glibc dependencies. I would be hesitant to
> > stuff a package, or even a single file from a package, from one
> > version into another version, without knowing those dependencies
> > weren't going to be busted at all.
> 
> I just tried my /etc/localtime from a 10.2 box on a 9.2 box and it 
> didn't work.  Still have the old DST dates.  :(
> 
> I've got an 8.2 box lying around as well :o  Custom app that has a 
> dependency on an old verion of Tk.  Porting, but still have 
> to use the 
> 8.2 box.
> 
> Adjusting DST manually for now.

So, I adapted the following instructions for Canada to fix DST on 8.2
and 9.x systems on my US systems.  

https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/112/3615274_
f.SAL_Public.html

Basically, I did the following:

To verify that I had to fix DST:
* zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007     

* Grabbed a copy of tzdata2007a.tar.gz from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub.

* Extracted the files from it. 

* zic northamerica

To filter out regions that didn't have tzdata info in older distros.
* grep US backward > backward.america 

* zic backward.america

To check that it worked:
* zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007

To relink localtime setting:
* zic -l US/Pacific

Since I did my testing in VMware, I reset the date to 1:59:55 on 3/11 to
watch that it rolled over to 3 am.  Also reset it to 1:59:55 on 4/1 to
see that it rolled over to 2 am.

Anyway, it seemed to work as far as the OS seemed concerned.  Hope this
helps.

                                        -p

~~~~~~~
Pat Hirayama
IT / Server Operations
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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