On some installs, suse copies the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth file to /etc/localtime. Updating the zoneinfo files makes some stuff work, but most use /etc/localtime (and the old copy). James
> This is relevant ... > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- On tigger I modified the zonefile for Perth. > On some of my customers machines I accepted suse (yast) updates for zone > file. I still need to find if and how ubuntu has updates, else I'll use my > own one. > > mine ... > [tigger] /home/jam [60]% zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth |grep > 2006 > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 17:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Dec > 3 01:59:59 2006 WST isdst=0 gmtoff=28800 > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 18:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Dec > 3 03:00:00 2006 WST isdst=1 gmtoff=32400 > > suse's ... > [server] /home/jam [850]% /usr/sbin/zdump > -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth |grep 2006 > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 17:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Dec > 3 01:59:59 2006 WST isdst=0 gmtoff=28800 > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 18:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Dec > 3 03:00:00 2006 WST isdst=1 gmtoff=32400 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ > > So this morning I checked times and NOTHING had happend, time was exactly > as before. > I do not understand. I thought I may have screwed up my zonefile, but I > expected suse's update to work. > Any suggestions ... > > I have on my www page times for london and maryland they DO track their > daylight saving times. The global system DOES work AND Perth is NOT > correct. Also if I change date to correct Perth time the rest of the world > is wrong. I'm utterly confused ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
