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Pasketti
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:11 am Post subject: [solved] Upcoming US Daylight Savings Time changes |
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In previous years, Daylight Savings Time has started on the first Sunday in April, and ended on the last Sunday in October.
But this year, the law changes. Now, it will start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.
Is there an update for the zoneinfo files? Or will I have to find whatever package they come in, get the source for CST6CDT, edit it, and then zic the thing?
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Pasketti
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Did more poking around. The change was evidently patched in already.
| Code: | zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep "2007"
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 CST isdst=0
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 CDT isdst=1
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 CDT isdst=1
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 CST isdst=0
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serotonin
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kaprino
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: packages needed for new US Day Light Savings Time changes |
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Hi
Our Linux Gentoo admin just quit a while ago, now I need help to resolve/patch the new DST Changes. I only used redhat before, so Gentoo is new to me. I ran the zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep "2007" and it seems that my Gentoo server is not setup for the new Daylight Savings changes. Is there documetnation on How to patch Gentoo for the new DST changes? Do I need to upgrade glibc and other packages also? How do you install them on a production mailserver withou affecting ht system ? This server is running postfix, SpamAssasin, LDAP and IMAP. If am on the wrong forum please let me know.
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: |
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As long as you are running a new enough version of glibc, you should be able to just update the sys-libs/timezone-data package to get the latest DST changes.
With older versions of glibc, the timezone data is not a separate package. |
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kaprino
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks cyrillic for replying,
I am new to Gentoo please bare with me. Ok so I might not have to update glibc, how do I know what version of glibc and pull the latest. Do use I use portage, any help will be greatly appreciated.
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: |
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I don't know how far out-of-date your system is, but you could always try this to see if a glibc update is needed.
| Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge -pv timezone-data |
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desultory
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Merged the preceding four posts. |
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kaprino
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Below is the information from emerge -pv timezone-data. If I emerge the timezone will it anyway affect my production server? I am not sure what the dependcy flags mean. Also how do I know what glibc version i have installed?
Thanks,
kap
~ $ emerge --search timezone-data
Searching...
[ Results for search key : timezone-data ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-libs/timezone-data
Latest version available: 2006o
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 336 kB
Homepage: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump)
License: GPL-2
~ $ emerge -pv timezone-data
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006o USE="nls" 336 kB
Total size of downloads: 336 kB |
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Pasketti
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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The easiest way to find out your version of glibc would be to attempt to upgrade it:
emerge -p glibc
It will then list the current version, and the version it wants to upgrade you to. |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| kaprino wrote: | ~ $ emerge -pv timezone-data
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006o USE="nls" 336 kB
Total size of downloads: 336 kB |
You are in kind of a gray area here.
I can see two things from what you have posted.
Your glibc dates back to before the timezone-data package was a separate package
The timezone-data package is not requiring you to upgrade glibc
You can probably get away with "emerge timezone-data", but I can't promise that overwriting part of glibc like this is safe to do. |
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kaprino
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like I am screwed, I am running 2.3.4.20040808-r1. This what happen when I run emerge -Dvp on a production mail server. How well Gentoo handle dependencies? Will it break my mail server that is running postfix, spamassain? It will probably take a while to build as well?
Thanks,
$ emerge -Dvp glibc
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] virtual/libintl-0 0 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.3.0 [4.1.20-r1] USE="nls -build (-selinux) -static (-afs%) (-debug%)" 1,102 kB
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r2 0 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3 [2.15.92.0.2-r1] USE="nls -multislot% -multitarget -test% -vanilla% (-bootstrap%) (-build%) (-debug%) (-uclibc%)" 12,367 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r1 [2.4.21-r1] USE="-gcc64%" 40,346 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r4 [1.3.8-r4] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2.1 [4.1.4] USE="-doc% -nocxx% (-debug%)" 1,685 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.2.0_p10 738 kB
[ebuild N ] virtual/libiconv-0 0 kB
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r1 USE="fortran nls (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc -gcj -gtk (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k -mudflap (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla" 38,320 kB
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006o USE="nls" 336 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r4 [2.3.4.20040808-r1] USE="nls nptl* nptlonly%* -build -glibc-compat20% -glibc-omitfp% -hardened (-multilib) -profile% (-selinux) (-debug%) (-erandom%) (-pic%) (-userlocales%*)" 15,760 kB
Total size of downloads: 110,656 kB |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| kaprino wrote: | | [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r1 [2.4.21-r1] |
That does not look like a safe upgrade - kernel 2.6 is quite different to 2.4  |
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Pasketti
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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It may be worthwhile to just download the timezone-data (emerge --fetch-only), extract the timezone file for your local time, and replace it manually.
I didn't get much farther than finding out that the "zic" command was the one to do that, but didn't actually get to that point myself. |
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kaprino
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Is it safe just to copy the /etc/localtime? I'm running an old version of glibc before the seperation. Would cause any conflicts or system to be unstable without really upgrading?
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Kap |
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eno2001
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: What Version of glibc? |
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| I see a lot of mention of the timezone data being split out of glibc after a certain version, but the version is never mentioned. Most of my boxes are on x86, so I imagine that there is a specific version of glibc that I should be above. What version is that? |
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Pasketti
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Coincidentally, I found some instructions here ( http://community.livejournal.com/linux/1588429.html ) to fix this manually.
Here they are:
| Quote: | Don't know if this was mentioned in the past about the changes to daylight savings time (DST) that takes effect this year, so I thought I'd be kind and share how to do this by hand. Just in case anyone here has a unsupported system, or their version of Linux has reached it's EOL.
Most of my personal boxes and a majority where I work have patches available, but a couple I use do not. My example was done on a SUN Ultra2 running Debian "Woody" 3.0 (running 3.0 being a relative term, as I've since upgraded the kernel and several other packages manually), but this should work on just about any Linux setup. I more or less followed this guide ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/dst/solaris_and_linux_systems.html ) to do the updates.
The old timezone database had these as the old entries for when DST would kick-in. Note that April 1st is listed as the start and October 28th is the end. The new change to DST should read March 11th and November 4th respectively:
user@host:~> /usr/bin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central |grep 2007
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central Sun Apr 1 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central Sun Apr 1 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central Sun Oct 28 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central Sun Oct 28 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
* 1) Get the updated timezone data. This file is what I used. ( ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz )
* 2) Unpack the GZip TAR archive. You will get several timezone files. The only one I was interested in was for North America (northamerica), so I more or less ignored the rest. Use whatever zone files apply to you.
* 3) Compile the timezone source file(s) with zic
root@host:~> /usr/bin/zic /path/to/zonefile
* 4) No command-line arguments will put it in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America, but you can specify a different location by the -d switch.
* 5) Change the /etc/localtime alias. Now on my old config, the correct timezone database was located in /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central. The new one is located in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago. Just select the nearest city in which you live with the correct timezone.1
root@host:~> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
Once this is done your timezone should reflect the correct dates and times:
user@host:~> /usr/bin/zdump -v /etc/localtime |grep 2007
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
1: I also noticed that /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT was new and appears to contain the same file information as /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago, so one could probably just use that file. |
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kaprino
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Pasketti,
YOu are a savior!! Will test it out on a non-critical system. before I try to patch on a production mail server. If anyone attempted this before please let me know if it was a sucesss.
Kap |
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bombcar
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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I found that my timezone was off, because I like to pick "Tijuana" instead of "Los Angeles" - but Mexico isn't changing the DST it looks like.
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rm localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles localtime
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Garth
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent post! Pasketti, your instructions worked like a charm to do this change manually. Note however that the file sourced here:
has now changed to tzdata2007b.tar.gz. You'll find the latest in that FTP directory.
This should be posted on Tips & Tricks board!
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