On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:02 -0400, taharka wrote: > 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? Copying should work in your case. In the general case, where you want to create your own timezone data, see "man zic". Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
