Cannot find time zone named MST7MDT

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Hi!

I generated for testing an XD image for AIX with a simple application that shows a text at the console. That's all. But when execute I get a walkback with the error:

Walkback at 07:01:46 on 12/09/14
Cannot find time zone named  MST7MDT
AbtHeadlessRuntimeStartUp class(EsImageStartUp class)>>#outputWalkback:process:
  receiver = AbtHeadlessRuntimeStartUp
  arg1 = [] in EsImageStartUp class>>#outputWalkback:on:process:
  arg2 = [] in EsImageStartUp class>>#outputWalkback:on:process:
[] in AbtHeadlessRuntimeStartUp class>>#outputWalkback:process:
  receiver = AbtHeadlessRuntimeStartUp
  arg1 = 'Cannot find time zone named  MST7MDT'
  arg2 = Process:2{running,3}
  temp1 = nil
  temp2 = nil

Exit with error code 60

Should I include something else to the packager? I think the error is when VA is trying to write the walkback.

The same code reduced in VAST 6.0.3 does not report any error.

Thanks,
Santiago

[Louis LaBrunda]

Hi Santiago,

Yes.  You need to include the time zoneinfo included in the va860_sw.zip (or whatever version of VA Smalltalk you have).

 

The same code reduced in VAST 6.0.3 does not report any error.

Thanks,
Santiago

Lou 

[Donald MacQueen]

Santiago,

What version of VA Smalltalk are you using?

Donald

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:35:57 AM UTC-5, Santiago Cardoso Geller wrote:

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Louis, I have the zoneinfo directory in the server. I will look for a reference in an ini file or something like that.

Donald, I am using 8.6.1 version in AIX.

thanks,
Santiago

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[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

and this is my /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory contents...

It does not contain MST7MDT entry.

[Donald MacQueen]

Hi Santiago,

Where do you live?  I live near Washington, DC so I am in what is known as Eastern Standard Time. Are you in Mountain Standard Time, i.e., Denver?

Donald

[Louis LaBrunda]

Hi Santiago,

Somehow you must have lost it.  I find it in both the Windows and Linux server zoneinfo files for 8.6.1 and 8.6.0.

Lou

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Donald, the server is located in MST. The configuration is right. The echo $TZ answers MST7MDT. I changed the abtnx.ini to overwrite zoneinfoPath setting with VASmalltalk zoneinfo directory, but it doesn't work. I'm analyzing why.

Thanks,
Santiago

[Donald MacQueen]

Santiago,

I believe Lou is right. The standard install of zoneinfo -does- include MST7MDT.  I suggest you change your time zone to 'America/Denver'.  It has Daylight Savings transitions;  MST7MDT does not.

Donald [|]

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Thank you Louis and Donald. I found the problem.

I'm not the server administrator so I'm not able to change the time zone or add the file that I need into /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory. So I wanted to set the zoneinfoPath setting to $VASTROOT_86/zoneinfo directory.

I noticed that the application was still looking for MST7MDT into /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory, even after change the abtnx.ini.

We discovered the following:

EsTimeZoneDatabase class>>#setTzInfoDir from EsTimeZoneAppUnix application is overwriting the value of the setting. We made this change to the original implementation to keep ini defined value:

Original:

dir := (System osType = 'Linux'
        ifTrue: ['/usr/share/zoneinfo/']
        ifFalse: ['/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/']).

Modified:

    dir := self tzInfoDir isNil
        ifTrue: [
            (System osType = 'Linux'
                ifTrue: ['/usr/share/zoneinfo/']
                ifFalse: ['/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/'])]
        ifFalse: [self tzInfoDir].

Regards,
Santiago

[Donald MacQueen]

Santiago,

What version of AIX are you running? All the AIX machines I have seen have their zoneinfo datat in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/ which is why it is hard-coded.

Donald

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Donald,
the OS level is 7.1.0, and you are right, the zoneinfo is in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/. But here we haven't got the MST7MDT file there (and I don't know why). We opened a ticket to the AIX administration group to fix that, but in the meanwhile we noticed that the setting from abtnx.ini was not working.

[Donald MacQueen]

Santiago,

Your fix is correct. We should allow the override of the zoneinfo location. I have created case 56956 to address this issue.

Donald

PS All your sysadmin has to do is to copy the missing file from the $VASTROOT_86/zoneinfo directory. The files are binary and platform independent.

[Santiago Cardoso Geller]

Thank you Donald for your attention.

Regards,

Santiago