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?
Now think of what this will probably mean for all the "high powered"
Windows 2003 servers out there that the "smart IT managers"
As we both know, 'smart' doesn't always equal intelligent...
have
installed on their huge server farms. I bet it requires them all to
be rebooted for this one wee tiny fix. I just gotta snort with
laughter.
(And for what it is worth - why not simply adopt DST all year long?
And of course, the way to do that is leave noon for a time zone
with the Sun within a half hour of the zenith position and let the
schools or work places shift their start times and stop times. But,
that's too logical.)
Apply logic? To a basicly human condition problem? That would be
totally out of character for TPTB. I'd fall over from shock if that
ever happened with enough regularity to get used to it.
{^_-}
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From: "Callahan, Michael" <MichaelCallahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Callahan? I'll have a God's Blessing, please. :-)
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