On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:06 -0700, Travis Bullock wrote: > Many thanks Temlakos, for your detailed explanation. I have not tried it yet but it looks pretty solid. > > Cheers, > > Travis Bullock > Systems Administrator > Avmax Group Inc. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Temlakos" <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases," <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 2, 2007 4:21:53 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver > Subject: Time zone update for older systems: SOLVED > > Everyone: > > Herewith a procedure I just used to update time zone data directly on a > machine still running Fedora Core 1. (Why the machine is in that state > is beyond scope here; it has to wait until I get a madwifi-compatible > PCI wireless card to replace the Linksys WMP-54G v3 that it has in it now.) > > Step one: acquire time zone data. I went right to the source: > > ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ > > Look for a file titled "tzdata2007c.tar.gz" or anything later. The "c" > version dates from 26 February 2007. > > Step two: extract this archive into a temporary folder: > > $ mkdir tztemp > $ tar -zxvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz > > Step three: compile the time zone data. North America should hold all > the changes you need. > > $mkdir zoneinfo > #su > #zic -d zoneinfo northamerica > > Step four: Copy /everything/ in your new zoneinfo directory into > /usr/share/zoneinfo. Use recursive copying, or dive into the various > directories, whatever--but copy /everything/ into /usr/share/zoneinfo. > (You never know when you might move from one time zone to another in the > future.) > > Step five: Quit the terminal, and then use the "Adjust Date and Time" > routine for a special maneuver. You must /change your time zone/ to some > other, arbitrary time zone, /quit/ the time-adjustment program, > /restart/ that program, and then change your time zone /back/. That will > copy the necessary file from /usr/share/zoneinfo into /etc/localtime. > > The test: when you execute > > $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 > > you should see four lines, proposing a change to DST on March 11, 2007 > and a change back to ST on November 4. > > The above should solve the immediate problem--or at least, I'll know > when I wake up on March 11 and start that machine again, and see whether > it agrees with all the clocks that I have rolled forward the night before. > > Credit goes to users "Brydon" and "jacqespi" at LinusQuestions.org, the > first for suggesting most of the steps, and the second for providing the > URL for the time zone files published by the US National Institute of > Standards and Technology. Changing the time zone setting back and forth > comes from an insight into exactly how the file /etc/localtime is set. I > suppose I could have established a forced symbolic link, but that seemed > "dirty," and I like things "clean." > > Temlakos > This is all great but if you google : tzdatta rpm the frost response will lead you to rpms for all the versions of fedora of interest. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
