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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> Might I ask what TUV is/stands for?
"The Upstream Vendor"(redhat)
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> I've got one SL 4.4 system and it has tzdata-2006g-1.EL4.
That one should have the latest Daylight time changes for the US.
> All my SL 3.0.4 systems have tzdata-2004e-1.EL.
> My one SL 3.0.5 system has tzdata-2005f-1.EL3
Will research 30x .
> My RHEL_3 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el3.
> My RHEL_4 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el4.
I have just put tzdata-2006m-3.el4 into the "fastbugs" area of 44 .
You should not really need this but it is the latest.
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386,x86_64/errata/fastbugs/RPMS/
This area is also accessable via yum.
-Connie Sieh
> And my RedHat 7.3 and 9.0 systems have no tzdata rpms. ?
>
> Other Than the unsupported RH 7.3 and 9.0 systems, all my systems
> are as up to date as I can make them, given yum cron jobs and RHN
> notices from RedHat.
>
> So, how does one know if times will get changed properly for the
> new DST changes?
>
> And what does one do for unsupported legacy systems?
> Don't think I want to look forward to manually changing 50+ systems.
> Also can't say I've heard of this change in start/end time for DST.
> Ah well...
>
> Thanks!
> - Larry
>
> Michael Mansour wrote on 1/9/2007 3:28 PM:
> > Hi Brent,
> >
> >> In the U.S.A. and Canada, the starting and ending times for Daylight
> >> Saving Time is changing this year. I've been looking around and can
> >> not figure out how to change this information under Linux,
> >> specifically Scientific Linux. Is there an RPM available or some
> >> file I can edit? I could always set the TZ environmental variable
> >> to something huge, but I was wandering if there was a better way. Thanks.
> >
> > TUV supplies updates in this package:
> >
> > tzdata-2006g-1.EL4
> >
> > Make sure you're using the latest, if changes are needed raise a
> > bugzilla.redhat.com bug and they will release a new tzdata shortly after.
> >
> > Either that or you can modify directly using zic and other tools.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael.
> >
> >> --
> >>
> >> Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.)
> >> M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204
> >> NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177
> >> Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001
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> > ------- End of Original Message -------
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> P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator
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