Thanks Matthew for your reply which gave me more idea about it. Redhat is slightly different from Debian. Could you send me compiled zoneinfo since it's platform and architecture independent?
Junmin -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 3:07 PM To: Bai, Junmin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SLUG] daylight saving patch for redhat 7.3 On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:22:37PM +1100, Bai, Junmin wrote: > > I have a redhat linux 7.3. Because of commonwealth game of 2006, we > need a patch for redhat 7.3 to solve the timezone problem. Does anyone > know this patch. Do you do updates with yum through fedoralegacy.org? Maybe they patched it already. (I had a quick look but couldn't see any evidence that they had) Check with: # zdump -c 2007 -v Australia/Sydney|grep 2006 You should get Australia/Sydney Sat Apr 1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 Australia/Sydney Sat Apr 1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000 Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000 Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 if it's correct. If it's not, get back to us. The fix will be similar to that posted for debian mentioned in earlier mail to this list. (http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges) Matt ************************************************************************ *PLEASE NOTE* This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please delete all copies and advise the sender. The reproduction or dissemination of this email or its attachments is prohibited without the consent of the sender. WARNING RE VIRUSES: Our computer systems sweep outgoing email to guard against viruses, but no warranty is given that this email or its attachments are virus free. Before opening or using attachments, please check for viruses. Our liability is limited to the re-supply of any affected attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the organisation. ************************************************************************ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
