[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Shannon Carver]

Just thought I'd post in and say, that my daily gentoo emerge received an
update to tzdata, with WA Daylight Savings data in it.  For all gentoo users
an emerge --sync && emerge tzdata should suffice.

I'll have to have a look at my Ubuntu install tonight to see if the process
is similar.

Cheers

Shannon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Mark O Shea
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:50 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Daylight Rubbish
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:08:53 +0800, Timothy White wrote
> > On 11/27/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
> > >  (1)  What needs to be updated and where to I get it?
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, just install the right zone files
> >
> That's fine for the OS and all applications that get the timezone from it.
> Sun Java has it's own ideas and your needs to be updated (or use a beta
> version of an updater which is being prepared for when the US goes through
> all this next year after nearly 2 years warning).  Unfortunately there
> doesn't appear to be anything to update it to yet, there are bugs filed
> with
> Sun and they say they are working on it.
> 
> Does anyone know of a freely available tool similar to zic which creates
> timezone files in the java format?
> 
> This was apparently a problem during the Commonwealth Games as well.
> 
> --
> Mark O'Shea
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