[ale] The world didn't end

[Christopher Fowler]

OMG!  I must say that is some very usefule info you just found for us.
Of all my servers my astlinux boxes are not working right.  I've updated
the Zoneinfo file but I'm still getting bad time.  My guess is that it
is a uClibc issue

buford-pbx ~ # date;env TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00' date
Mon Mar 12 08:33:52 EST 2007
Mon Mar 12 09:33:52 EDT 2007


I'm going to place that string in the rc.conf of astlinux ans see if it
works on a reboot.


On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:03 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> OpenServer Release 5.0.4 - SCO's only response was "upgrade to 5.0.7" as
> if THAT were an option.   Trolling Google I found that simply modifying
> /etc/TIMEZONE was the fix needed:
> 
> New Value:
> TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00'
> 
> Old Value:
> TZ='EST5EDT'
> 
> SCO apparently doesn't have zone files anywhere that can be modified so
> the above will make it alter the "stored" value for EST5EDT.
> 
> I'm assuming the above would work for other US timezones so long as you
> substituted the base timezone (e.g. PST8PDT) for EST5EDT.
> 
> The timezone man page details why it works.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of H.
> A. Story
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:25 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] The world didn't end
> 
> what version of SCO? Did you apply a patch? I am not sure if 5.0.7 or 
> earlier has the patch. I know 6.0 does. Only reason I am asking is I 
> have a lot of clients that have asked because of the news coverage. Best
> 
> answer I can give them is that their system has been wrong half of the 
> year for the past 7 years what is a few weeks now?
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> Jeff Lightner wrote:
> >
> > Amazing all of my UNIX/Linux systems successfully transitioned to the 
> > new EDT without a problem AND my lights and cable are still on.
> >
> > Hell even my unsupported SCO (I know) UNIX box' bizarre fix for 
> > unsupported version worked as did my unsupported HP-UX 10.20 servers.
> >
> > If only I could have figured out how to automatically change the dam 
> > AS400 times I wouldn't have even had to have gotten up tonight.
> >
> >
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