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Daylight saving in 2007

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smlunatick

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Oct 30, 2006, 2:35:55 PM10/30/06
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Besides the recommended upgrade paths from SCO, what can I do for the
daylight savings date changes in 2007? I have several older SCO
OpenServer (5.0.6 or earlier) where the customer will not want the
troubles of an upgrade. Is there just a TZ / timezone edit I can do
and how?

Andrew Smallshaw

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Oct 30, 2006, 4:09:35 PM10/30/06
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Take a look at the timezone(F) man page - you'll need to edit a
file /etc/TIMEZONE. I'm not going into any more detail because I
don't know what timezone you're in, and I don't have an OpenServer
machine handy right now to play with anyway.

--
Andrew Smallshaw
and...@sdf.lonestar.org

ThreeStar

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Oct 30, 2006, 7:58:15 PM10/30/06
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You need to set the TZ variable to

PST 8 PDT 07,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00

which identifies daylight savings as starting 2 a.m. the second Sunday
in March and ending the first Sunday in November. This is typically
done in the /etc/TIMEZONE file. I've confirmed this works back to
OpenServer 4.

Of course, undoubtedly there's some key application that ignores TZ ...

--Ray Robert

jbo...@sco.com

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Oct 31, 2006, 9:36:19 AM10/31/06
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Hi,

The system wide timezone is held in

/etc/TIMEZONE

You can manually edit this to be what ever you want it to be. For
details on syntax for TZ see the environ(M) man page.

Individual users can have their TZ value set at login time if the users
are in a different timezone to the server. Setting

John

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