On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:58:20 GMT, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:

>On 2006-03-26, Grant <bugsplatter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Trick is, one needs to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Victoria (in
>> my case) to /etc/localtime... So why isn't /etc/localtime a symlink
>> in the first place?
>>
>> Very odd, now visit half a dozen other linux boxen and fix? Yup
>>
>> Grant.
>
>It is on my box, well, not to Aus/Victoria but still symlink to
>/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
>
>Odd is, you're the one that told me about it within the last two
>weeks.....right??? I said it was a binary, I think, you said it was a ....

Few weeks back I discovered our crazy Govt. changed DST for Commonwealth
Games, but at the time it looked as if slackware already had the fix
since /usr/share/zoneinfo/* was dated Sep'05, after the new timezones
were announced, I think only Stan. Flatto responded to that one...

So this morning I have wrong time, and, on investigation find that
copying slack-current usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Victoria to
/etc/localtime worked, but the slack-current files are stamped Feb'06.


It's a binary file, I remember some related discussion about a missing
(for some of us) /etc/timezone file, which I don't have -- that (I think)
was the most recent discussion.

Odd thing was another slack (10.1 or .2) box got knocked back from +1100
to +1000 on startup (localtime in RTC), so I had to copy the file to it.

The laptop was 7200 seconds out -- not even hazard a guess what happened
there as its running local time in RTC too for dual boot win98 + win2k...

That's three down five to go, but the rest also need a network ID change
too, one is a reinstall 'cos I swapped HDDs -- we expecting 31'C here
today -- too warm to run lots of PCs like I do in winter-time.

Grant.
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