-----Original Message----- From: Gilbert C Healton [mailto:ghealton@hiway1.exit109.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:20 PM To: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: proposed changes to tzselect As I've been looking for a FAQ to this list and not finding one, but lots of spam in the archives, I figure I'll just go ahead and write this. I have some changes to tzselect that adds an -s option to allow the operator to set the systems time zone muche like the timeconfig command does, but it sets a few more generic files I've seen documented on various web pages. It can also be driven from shell scripts, if you care to do it that way. I've also attempted to make it smart enough to work on any "zoneinfo" system without the changes some releases now require. Some feed back on this would really be appreciated. In particular testing on systems I do not (currently) have access to. Gnu/Linux [x] Red Hat [ ] Other non-Red Hat (especially those without /etc/redhat-release) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DJGPP, HP-UX, IRIX, Open UNIX, Solaris Tru64.k As I am no sure poting an attachment is a good idea for this mailing list, I've made the changes available as a series of diff files at http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/tzselect-diffs.tar.gz based on the source I downloaded earlier today. The patch program can be used to apply them to your local source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ghealton@exit109.com http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computers are like air conditioners: they don't work well when Windows are left open