On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:59:55PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 19-Dec-05, 09:21 (CST), Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically, what I would propose is /etc/localtime.conf contain
something like US/Eastern, and let /etc/zoneinfo be a copy of the
file
On 19-Dec-05, 09:21 (CST), Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically, what I would propose is /etc/localtime.conf contain
something like US/Eastern, and let /etc/zoneinfo be a copy of the
file /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat /etc/zoneinfo`.
Um, /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:37:06PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
(for example if the US Congress
changes the definition of daylight savings time),
That should be when, not if, unfortunately. AFAIK, they've already
done it.
On my system, /bin, /etc, /lib, and
ma, 2005-12-19 kello 10:21 -0500, Theodore Ts'o kirjoitti:
Specifically, what I would propose is /etc/localtime.conf contain
something like US/Eastern, and let /etc/zoneinfo be a copy of the
file /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat /etc/zoneinfo`.
Does anyone have any objections with this proposal?
I
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
(for example if the US Congress
changes the definition of daylight savings time),
That should be when, not if, unfortunately. AFAIK, they've already
done it.
On my system, /bin, /etc, /lib, and /sbin together are 156M;
/usr/share/zoneinfo is 5.5M. So, while a 3.5%
Fixing this the right way will require changing when Debian boot
scripts run hwclock (as the first very thing), and will require making
changes to util-linux, the installer (so that /etc/zoneinfo is not a
symlink, and so that the information about what the local timezone is
stored somewhere else
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