[ntp:questions] question about DST
askarali at gmail.com
askarali at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 03:47:29 UTC 2008
On May 31, 9:54 pm, Unruh <unruh-s... at physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
> asrai... at gmail.com writes:
> >On May 31, 3:17 am, David Woolley
> ><da... at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> >> Bill Unruh wrote:
> >> > Ah, ok. But then he should subscribe to the mailing list while he is asking
> >> > questions of the list or the newgroup. Ie, expecting people to privately
>
> >> Definitely.
>
> >> >ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.gz
> >> > which can be downloaded from the web. In that file are listed all the known
>
> >> "known" may be the issue. Unless the country is Morocco, in which case
>
> He claims to be in Pakistan. The latest tzdata file KNOWS about the change
>
> #
> Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
> Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 -
> Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
> Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
> # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
> Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
> 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
> 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
> 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
> 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
> 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
>
> >So switching from +5:00 to +6:00 GMT is what i have to do at OS side?
>
> NO. What you have to do is go to that nist site, download the latest tzdata
> file
> tzdata2008c.tar.gz
> to your Linux machine
>
> untar it
> tar -xzf tzdata2008c.tar.gz
> zic asia
> rm /etc/localtime
> cp /usr/share/zoninfo/Asia/Karachi /etc/localtime
>
> And you are done.
> You can copy that same file to your other Linux ( and probably unix)
> machines as well, and you are done.
>
> On Windows follow Moe's suggestion.
Thanks for the step by step instructions, its works on Linux (centos)
I'll update after doing it on other OS (Solaris).
I wonders what will be procedure when after three months when the
clocks go back?
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