[WBEL-users] new DST on WBL 3.0...
Jeff Lasman
blists at nobaloney.net
Sun Mar 11 17:41:36 CDT 2007
On Sunday 11 March 2007 01:40 pm, Mike B. wrote:
> That depends on whether the files in his /usr/share/zoneinfo tree
> include the 2007 changes to the timezones he cares about. His
> question seemed to imply that they didn't, though his followup
> message later shows your guess was correct.
Based on the post to which I was responding, I thought he'd said he'd
installed the tzdata update, which would have made them correct.
Maybe I was even right; that does happen sometimes <smile>.
> Anyone else running an older
> (built more than a couple of years ago) version of Linux might still
> benefit from the link I found.
Definitely.
> Any idea why Linux doesn't use a symlink for /etc/localtime? That
> would have let me skip the cp step and just build stuff in
> /usr/share/zoneinfo and be done with it.
Would "simply because it doesn't" answer your question? We've done it
on our test boxes and as soon as I have time to check them Monday... if
they worked, we'll install links on other servers as well.
Jeff
--
Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services
P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517
Our blists address used on lists is for list email only
voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see:
"http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"
More information about the Whitebox-users
mailing list