Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Just: dpkg -l tzdata should do the trick 2013/9/12 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: On Sep 9, 2013 11:58 PM, Antony Gelberg antony.gelb...@gmail.com wrote: I put a compiled file at http://db.tt/wVCB6HJd. I copied it to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem, and on my Debian system I did

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-12 Thread Erez D
Thanks, I needed that ;-) On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Antony Gelberg antony.gelb...@gmail.comwrote: I put a compiled file at http://db.tt/wVCB6HJd. I copied it to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem, and on my Debian system I did dpkg-reconfigure tzdata which as far as I can tell copies

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-12 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Sep 9, 2013 11:58 PM, Antony Gelberg antony.gelb...@gmail.com wrote: I put a compiled file at http://db.tt/wVCB6HJd. I copied it to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem, and on my Debian system I did dpkg-reconfigure tzdata which as far as I can tell copies the file to /etc/localtime. You may

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-09 Thread Antony Gelberg
I put a compiled file at http://db.tt/wVCB6HJd. I copied it to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem, and on my Debian system I did dpkg-reconfigure tzdata which as far as I can tell copies the file to /etc/localtime. You may wish to use cp instead. ;) Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for anything

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 9/8/2013 12:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata updates should be available to all versions regardless of their production state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to specific versions Can anyone point me to a correct

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-08 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
Download the current tzdate file from iana and compile the file yourself e.g - http://www.borngeek.com/2009/03/16/updating-time-zone-information-in-linux/ On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/8/2013 12:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 11:56:00AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: Can anyone point me to a correct Asia/Jerusalem file without having to install a package? I have two old systems I want to fix, without any other mods? Donload the deb and extract (ar+tar or with your file manager)

Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Amichay P. K.
Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece? http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316 -- Regards, Amichay. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this. On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote: Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece? http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread shimi
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: Hi, Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this. On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote: Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? Do you consider it safer to

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Shimi, 2013-c2 updates (available for centos 5.x/rhel 5.x) should be sufficient too. תודה, *חץ בן חמו* *חץ ביז http://www.hetz.biz*- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות וירטואליזציה. טלפון: 054-5297156 אתם מוזמנים לבקר אותנו בבלוג היעוץ שלנו http://vps-consulting.info [image: גם

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread shimi
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo h...@hetz.biz wrote: Shimi, 2013-c2 updates (available for centos 5.x/rhel 5.x) should be sufficient too. I used the official timezone database naming convention ( http://www.iana.org/time-zones), not a specific distro. And the official version

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Amichay P. K.
tnx, my machine is ok :) 2013/9/7 Hetz Ben Hamo h...@hetz.biz Shimi, 2013-c2 updates (available for centos 5.x/rhel 5.x) should be sufficient too. תודה, *חץ בן חמו* *חץ ביז http://www.hetz.biz*- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות וירטואליזציה. טלפון: 054-5297156 אתם

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I just checked my Mageia 3 and found that the files are from 2013c. [solomon@shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0 Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT

Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Omer Zak
I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them are rather out of date: $ zdump -v

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Lior Kaplan
Tzafrir and I requested an update an month ago without any response. You can take the updated packages from recent version of Debian/Ubuntu. Kaplan On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze

Fedora 17 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
I am running Fedora 17 (still - yes, I know, I know) on a couple of machines. For the benefit of anyone else who is beind the times, I found that I needed to enable the updates-testing repo to update to tzdata-2013c-2 that has the correct IDT-IST transition. The tzdata-2013c-1 version that I had

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Omer Zak wrote: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata updates should be available to all versions regardless of their production state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to specific versions 2013/9/7 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: I just checked my Mageia 3 and

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Udi Finkelstein
Anyone knows where to get an optware version of this? My aging Linkstation NAS is using optware packages and has only tz_2012c2. I would rather find a new souce for an up to date tz package rather than start manually updating those. thanks, Udi On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:21 PM, shimi

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread guy keren
On 09/07/2013 11:22 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com: On 09/07/2013 11:22 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise