Alpha managers who have DU boxes in the Australia/NSW timezone may find
their machines have switched back into non-daylight savings (or vice versa
- I can't remember which!) Anyhow, you will need to edit the
/etc/zoneinfo/sources/australasia, and then run "zic" on that file to
update the timezone info (ie. "zic /etc/zoneinfo/sources/australasia").
I'm pretty sure the switch is supposed to occur on the last Sunday in
March - but I'm no expert.
Replace this line (about line 83):
Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
With this line:
Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
And then add this line:
Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
The diff is something like this (I probably got this wrong, I haven't
produced context diffs before):
*** australasia.orig Sun Mar 2 11:39:43 1997
--- australasia Sun Mar 2 11:41:53 1997
***************
*** 80,86 ****
# Rule AN 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
# Rule AN 1989 only - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - #
! Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/NSW 10:00 AN EST
Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AN CST
--- 80,87 ----
# Rule AN 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
# Rule AN 1989 only - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - #
! Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
! Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/NSW 10:00 AN EST
Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AN CST
Could somebody at Digital PLEASE FIX UP THE DISTRIBUTED ZONEINFO files.
Sun seem to have their zoneinfo's up to date :-) - I'm now running DU4.0B
and I remember having to fix this last year under DU3.2!
_____________________________________________________________________________
Andrew "Alf" Leahy, phone: 047 360385
Unix Administrator, mailto:alf_at_nepean.uws.edu.au
Systems & Ops, TASS, CCD, UWS Nepean
http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/~alf/
Received on Sun Mar 02 1997 - 02:38:26 NZDT