[PLUG] DST Sunday morning - Check your system, Win users beware

[alan]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 09:47 -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>> If you don't get the right answer, you will need to do more research
>> on a cure; automated updates took care of this for me.
>
> The timezone files seem to be a reasonably stable binary format (at
> least, within the same bit-width), so you can update older systems by
> copying the appropriate timezone file (/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific)
> to the older hosts.  I had to do this with an old Caldera OpenLinux
> (pre-mad-SCO disease) box and SuSE 9.1 box.

I have a set of instructions in my mail spool at home that shows how to 
rebuild the timezone information based on the current tables.  If I 
remember I will dig it out and post it here.

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