[Aaug] Re: [ale] The world didn't end

[Christopher Fowler]

I did try this on my FC# box and it did not behave like I was expecting.
Maybe something is wrong in the variable?


[cfowler at shuttle ~]$ env TZ="EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00"
date ; env TZ="CST5CDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00" date
Mon Mar 12 09:41:45 EDT 2007
Mon Mar 12 09:41:45 CDT 2007

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:34 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> OMG!  I must say that is some very usefule info you just found for us.
> Of all my servers my astlinux boxes are not working right.  I've updated
> the Zoneinfo file but I'm still getting bad time.  My guess is that it
> is a uClibc issue
> 
> buford-pbx ~ # date;env TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00' date
> Mon Mar 12 08:33:52 EST 2007
> Mon Mar 12 09:33:52 EDT 2007
> 
> 
> I'm going to place that string in the rc.conf of astlinux ans see if it
> works on a reboot.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:03 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > OpenServer Release 5.0.4 - SCO's only response was "upgrade to 5.0.7" as
> > if THAT were an option.   Trolling Google I found that simply modifying
> > /etc/TIMEZONE was the fix needed:
> > 
> > New Value:
> > TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00'
> > 
> > Old Value:
> > TZ='EST5EDT'
> > 
> > SCO apparently doesn't have zone files anywhere that can be modified so
> > the above will make it alter the "stored" value for EST5EDT.
> > 
> > I'm assuming the above would work for other US timezones so long as you
> > substituted the base timezone (e.g. PST8PDT) for EST5EDT.
> > 
> > The timezone man page details why it works.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of H.
> > A. Story
> > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:25 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] The world didn't end
> > 
> > what version of SCO? Did you apply a patch? I am not sure if 5.0.7 or 
> > earlier has the patch. I know 6.0 does. Only reason I am asking is I 
> > have a lot of clients that have asked because of the news coverage. Best
> > 
> > answer I can give them is that their system has been wrong half of the 
> > year for the past 7 years what is a few weeks now?
> > 
> > Adrin
> > 
> > 
> > Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > >
> > > Amazing all of my UNIX/Linux systems successfully transitioned to the 
> > > new EDT without a problem AND my lights and cable are still on.
> > >
> > > Hell even my unsupported SCO (I know) UNIX box' bizarre fix for 
> > > unsupported version worked as did my unsupported HP-UX 10.20 servers.
> > >
> > > If only I could have figured out how to automatically change the dam 
> > > AS400 times I wouldn't have even had to have gotten up tonight.
> > >
> > >
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