[Novalug] Gentoo DST Ubuntu

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Tue Mar 6 12:54:23 EST 2007


My understanding is that dapper and earlier versions use locale and edgy
uses tzdata.

?

k

On Tue, March 6, 2007 12:39, donjr wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:22 -0500, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>> $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>>
>> The DST change should reflect March instead of April.  If in April, not
>> March, then update the timezone-data package.
>>
>> (as root, change architecture if on different platform in line #1)
>> $ echo "sys-libs/timezone-data ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>> $ emerge -Dv timezone-data
>>
>> Re-verify using zdump method.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Note: in other distributions, this package is called "tzdata".
>>
>
> For Ubuntu user it's called locales, dapper latest patched version is
> 2.3.18.1 and the patched version was pushed out on or before Jan 23,
> 2007.
>
> So if you have been keeping up with your patches you have nothing to
> worry about here.
>
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