[plug] java timezone patch

[Kev]

Michael Holland wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Gavin Chester wrote:
>
>   
>> Anyone applied the java 'jtzu' patch successfully?  I downloaded the
>>     
>
> I've tried, on Ubuntu, but cannot get it to work either.
>
> Also, I noticed that postfix was still using its own zone. It doesn't
> really matter much, but to fix it copy Perth (or /etc/localtime) to
>    /var/spool/postfix/etc/localtime
>
>
> On OS-X, there is no fix at all yet. The best answer is to switch to
> Japanese time!  I tried coping /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth from
> Linux to OS-X, and now 'date' works, but the menu bar clock is wrong.
> Open the 'set time' dialog and the analog clock show DST, but the adjacent
> digital clock shows WST. WTF!!!?  iCal does even weirder things mixing the
> two.
>   So attempting to fix the zoneinfo on OS-X is not a good idea at this
> stage.  Grudging credit to Microsoft on this one.
>
>  Its sad that nobody has a simple 'tick this box' manual over-ride for
> DST, not Apple, MS, or Gnome. (kde??)

My fix was done within a cone of complete ignorance, but it works 100% 
in at least one installation of Kubuntu Edgy (Bob's), in my SimplyMEPIS 
6.0 and in my Xandros 4.  All are Debian based distros - I don't know if 
that should make any difference.  I didn't invent this myself - Bob 
showed me how.

1. Get the 'Perth' file from BSD
2. copy it to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/
3. In a root console run tzconfig and follow the prompts.

Given that OS X is a BSD derivative I would have thought that this would 
work there too.

Any'ow it sure works 100% for me.  :-)

Cheers
Kev


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