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:
On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:23, jdow wrote:
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.
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.
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.