Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the new energy bill was signed in to law, the existing > tzfile information for all those parts of the United States that use > DST needs to be tweaked so the automatic change will occur at the > correct times. Will there be new tzfile sets we can download that > have been modified or do we need to generate our own? The tzfile for > any given time zone is a binary file containing constants that drive > all the conversion routines for the timeofday functions. It occurred > to me that now is as good a time as any to start patching since the > new data set won't hurt a thing to install and have running.
The source of the zone files is in the glibc sources. There are files in a syntax which is compiled by zic(8), the zone info compiler. You can change the timezone description and compile yourself, using zic, then install the results in /usr/share/zoneinfo. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
