Re: Our (US) $s at work.

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:11 +0000, Ian Burrell wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes:
> > Yes, but on this FC2 box, there is not to my knowledge, any mechanism 
> > for auto-updating the file.  Can you elaborate on hwo this is done?
>
> Yum.  The tzdata maintainer publishes a new version with the changed data files.
>  The tzdata archive contains textual description of the timezones which are
> compiled into a binary format.  The tools for dumping and compiling are not
> include in Fedora Core.

zdump and zic are included in the glibc-common package.
> Red Hat then releases a new tzdata package and everyone
> updates through yum.

Red Hat don't release any updates for FC2 any more. It is End-of-Lifed.

Paul.