Winter clock issues in linux

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Just:
dpkg -l tzdata
should do the trick

2013/9/12 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>:
>
> On Sep 9, 2013 11:58 PM, "Antony Gelberg" <antony.gelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I put a compiled file at http://db.tt/wVCB6HJd.  I copied it to
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem, and on my Debian system I did
>> dpkg-reconfigure tzdata which as far as I can tell copies the file to
>> /etc/localtime.  You may wish to use cp instead. ;)
>>
>> Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for anything the file may do to your
>> systems, etc, yadda.
>>
>> Antony
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Download the current tzdate file from iana and compile the file yourself
>>>
>>> e.g -
>>> http://www.borngeek.com/2009/03/16/updating-time-zone-information-in-linux/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, geoffrey mendelson
>>> <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/8/2013 12:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata
>>>>> updates should be available to all versions regardless of their
>>>>> "production" state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to
>>>>> specific versions....
>>>>>
>>>> Can anyone point me to a correct Asia/Jerusalem file without having to
>>>> install a package? I have two old systems I want to fix, without any other
>>>> mods?
>>>>
>>>> TIA.
>>>> Geoff
>>>>
>>>> Geoff.
>>>>
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>
> How do I check which version of the database file I have on my Ubuntu
> 12.04.3 box?
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep tzdata?
>
> Thanks
>
> Amichai
>
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