how to install new tz data on BSD/OS ?
Hi, I am using BSD/OS systems which use tz data as BSDI support seems to say. I would like to know how to install tz data to incorporate new european summertimes (I am in MET-1METDST) as HP said : All countries member of the European Community should implement the new summertime guidelines for 1996/1997. From now on in all these countries the switch from wintertime to summertime will be done on the same day (switching back also). The changes are : # Mitteleuropaeische Zeit, Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit MEZ-1MESZ 0 3 25-31 3 1983-2038 0 MESZ-2 0 2 24-30 9 1983-1995 0 MEZ-1 0 2 25-31 10 1996-2038 0 MEZ-1 # Middle European Time, Middle European Time Daylight Savings Time MET-1METDST 0 3 25-31 3 1983-2038 0 METDST-2 0 2 24-30 9 1983-1995 0 MET-1 0 2 25-31 10 1996-2038 0 MET-1 # Greenwich Mean Time, British Summer Time GMT0BST 0 3 25-31 3 1983-1984 0 BST-1 0 3 23-29 3 1985-1990 0 BST-1 0 3 25-31 3 1991-1995 0 BST-1 0 2 25-31 3 1996-2038 0 BST-1 0 1 25-31 10 1983-1985 0 GMT0 0 1 23-29 10 1986-1994 0 GMT0 0 1 18-24 10 1995 0 GMT0 0 1 25-31 10 1996-2038 0 GMT0 # Western European Time, Western European Time Daylight Savings Time WET0WETDST 0 3 25-31 3 1983-1984 0 WETDST-1 0 3 23-29 3 1985-1995 0 WETDST-1 0 2 25-31 3 1996-2038 0 WETDST-1 0 1 25-31 10 1983-1985 0 WET0 0 1 23-29 10 1986-1995 0 WET0 0 1 25-31 10 1996-2038 0 WET0 I found that on my systems, I have a crypted /etc/localtime and /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory with subdir containing TZ info for towns in crypted text. Thanks in advance for your help. Gildas. -- Gildas PERROT, perrot@francenet.fr __o FranceNet, 28 rue Desaix, 75015 Paris ---_ \<,_ ---- (_)/ (_)
In message <199609181447.QAA05251@epiphore.francenet.fr>, you wrote:
# Middle European Time, Middle European Time Daylight Savings Time MET-1METDST
Just a note: The correct official English name and abbreviation of your time zone is Central European (Summer) Time (CET-1CEST) and not MET. This has been confirmed by people from the German official time lab, CET is widely used in the media, and CET/CEST is the English abbreviation that you'll find in several German-English dictionaries that I have checked. This was wrong under Unix for a long time, however the latest revision of the tz database finally got this right. You have to download the tzcode* and tzdata* files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/. Just enter a "make zic" in case you have not already installed a recent version of the zone info compiler. With "zic europe", this program will read the database file "europe" and produce a number of compact binary files with information about various time zones. You (in France) will need the file "Europe/Paris" that zic produces from Europe and link or copy it on /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime, or /etc/localtime, or whereever on your system the time zone is specified. Every time zone is identified by the name of the largest populated area in this time zone (e.g., Paris for France). See man zic for details. Hope this helped ... Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Science grad student, Purdue University, Indiana, USA -- email: kuhn@cs.purdue.edu
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