On Sunday 31 July 2005 11:47, 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. 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? [... no Spider Robinson fans here I can see, but I'll still take the cup of God's Blessing anyway the next time I'm down at the last key with a bridge to it] -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
