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Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 09 2007 11:08PM
lcashdol gmail com (4 replies)
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 15 2007 11:52AM
Keith Farrar (farrar PARC com) (2 replies)
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 16 2007 10:57PM
Andy_Bach wiwb uscourts gov (1 replies)
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 17 2007 07:04PM
Casper Dik Sun COM

>No luck, least-wise not w/ the 'old' CST6CDT formated TZ-style. Even using
>the 2.8 updated zdump/zic. It appears (from truss) that using these
>formats ignores the zoneinfo files. The CST6CDT zoneinfo file does contain
>the correct DST date (I copied one to a new TZ name and tested that w/ the
>zdumps). The zdump.c code for sol I can find:
>http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/loficc/crypto/usr/src/cmd/zdump/
zdump.c

Yes, POSIX requires that it ignores the zoneinfo files.

>appears to be a port of the NIH code which dutifully opens the appropriate
>zoneinfo file. I can compile that and it works - even if I use the sol
>zoneinfo files. Hmm, is this only a zdump (pre 10 (at least) anyway)
>problem? That is, after changing my TIMEZONE to use US/Central is there
>another test to see if solaris will have an issue?

Why can't you just install the zoneinfo files and set the TZ to
America/Whatever?

Casper

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RE: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 15 2007 11:43PM
Riddle, Bruce (Bruce) % (riddleb agere com)
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 11 2007 12:54AM
Andy_Bach wiwb uscourts gov
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 10 2007 09:19PM
Blaine Lefler (blaine theleflers com)
Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix. Jan 10 2007 09:12PM
Blaine Lefler (blaine theleflers com)


 

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