Re: [Astlinux-users] zoneinfo files

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 3/11/07, Darrick Hartman <dha...@dj...> wrote:
> As you probably know several areas recently changed their start of
> daylight savings time to supposedly help conserve energy.  We won't go
> into that whole discussion, but suffice it to say that we've had to make
> some changes.  I'll provide a little history on the zoneinfo files and
> how they tie into Astlinux along with the TZ variable, then give you a
> link where you can grab some replacement files.
>
> Astlinux is built on uclibc.  uclibc it self does not use the
> information in the zoneinfo files usually found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
> and linked from /etc/localtime.  Asterisk however DOES read these files
> directly rather than access this data via the *libc.  This is how we
> ended up with two variables in rc.conf referring to timezones.  TZ sets
> the timezone for the system, TIMEZONE sets it for Asterisk.
>
> If you don't mind the time on your voicemails being off by the daylight
> savings time offset, you don't need to do anything.
>
> For the foreseeable future, the TZ variable will need to be adjusted as
> mentioned in my previous email.  Again, this is for the system time.
>
> The TIMEZONE variable can stay as is, but the zoneinfo files need to be
> updated.  I have a tar.gz file available which has updated timezone
> data.  This has not been fully tested, but it works on my test system.
> I will be creating new images based on 0.4 branch which will have the
> updated files.  You can either update to these images or grab the file
> and overwrite the files on your current image.  I only recommend doing
> this if you really know what you are doing.
>
> http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/tzdata.tar.gz
>
> To overwrite the current files, you will need to mount your system
> read-write.
> Remove the existing files in /usr/share/zoneinfo
> Replace them with the files in that tar.gz file.
>
> Darrick
>

Darrick,

  I see the commit for 0.4.  I am merging that into trunk right now.
Thanks a lot!

  I am thinking that it probably makes more sense to have these as a
package - glibc-tzdata, for instance.

  Either the user could compile it themselves (similar to Lonnie's
method) or we could just offer a binary tarball to download and
install.

  What do you think?


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Kristian Kielhofner