On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:02 -0400, taharka wrote:
Now I have a question,
Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:23, jdow wrote:
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>>>Regardless of all points taken in this discussion think a moment of
>>>the humor of the whole thing, please. The repair for Linux is one
>>>file that is not even an executable. For my case it's the usr share
>>>file: "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>And how would one go about fixing it?, mine
>>(/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) seems to be some compressed
>>format.
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>This does not need fixing. When/if the date/time of the change between
>standard and daylight times changes, your timezone file (New York | Los
>Angeles | whatever) gets replaced/updated and it automagically happens
>at the proper time.
>
>That file as you both have listed tells the system when to switch times.
>There are many of those files on your system, one for each official time
>zone area around the world.
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My file reads, "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Kentucky". Now, there are
two selections in that directory, Louisville & Monticello. I have
selected Louisville for my time zone. Suppose I wanted to make a copy of
the Louisville file, modify it to suite my taste (bear in mind, the
previous poster pointed out, the file "seems to be some compressed
format") & save the file as Lexington (which is where I am actually
located) in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Kentucky directory. How do I
modify the compressed file? Or, do simply copy the Louisville file &
rename it to Lexington?
Copying should work in your case. In the general case, where you want to
create your own timezone data, see "man zic".
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>