Winter clock issues in linux

[Amichai Rotman]

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:
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>> 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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