Re: [Astlinux-users] zoneinfo files

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>   
I almost have the package ready...

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Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
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