[asterisk-users] Fix for TZ values updates for DST

Darrick Hartman dhartman at djhsolutions.com
Sun Mar 11 09:02:08 MST 2007


Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> This seems to be rather specific to astlinux, or maybe more generally to
> systems based on uclibc.
>   
Yes, I mentioned that in my follow up email that I sent the message to 
the wrong list.
> For standard glibc-based systems, the quick&dirty fix is to grab
> /etc/localtime from an up-to-date system in the same timezone and copy
> it to /etc/localtime .
>
> I was once told that the format of the binary timezone files is quite
> compatible accross different unix systems. Is that indeed the case? Can
> I freely copy them around from one system to another?
>   
Yes you can copy this from one system to another.  Most distros had 
their update files in place a while back. 

Darrick

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