Re: Daylight Saving Time update

George Toft wrote:
> There does not seem to be much buzz about this topic, but if you deal
> with systems outside AZ, you might want to make sure your systems are
> updated.
>
> Older systems (FC3 and older, I believe) and many others need a manual
> update. Here's what I used on a couple of FC2 boxes I have:
>
> cd /tmp
> wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz'
> tar -xzvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
> zic -d zoneinfo northamerica
> cd zoneinfo
> cp -r * /usr/share/zoneinfo/
> rm -f /etc/localtime
> ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST /etc/localtime
> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> cd ..
> rm -rf tzdata2007c.tar.gz zoneinfo
> find . -user 8800 | xargs rm
>
> (procedure adapted from
> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6163042.html)

Thank you for this, George!

Today I was going to go research what must be done to update our FC2
server. Now the job is done and I didn't have to research it.

(I love this list and this LUG!)

Alan

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