I notice that SCO is declining to patch older versions of Unixware for
the upcoming DST changes.

I've still got a few OpenUnix 8 boxes running. Are there any
workarounds for the new DST dates?

thanks,
-carl

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carl.hirsch@gmail.com wrote, On 01/02/07 09:13:
> I notice that SCO is declining to patch older versions of Unixware for
> the upcoming DST changes.

That reminds me of Microsoft with Windows 98SE.

>
> I've still got a few OpenUnix 8 boxes running. Are there any
> workarounds for the new DST dates?
>
> thanks,
> -carl
>

With UnixWare 1.X, I was able to use the Olsen time zone files and
recompile the time zone information to reflect new Daylight Savings Time
dates; see the commands that start with zic* (zicinfo...).

Arthur.

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On Jan 31, 6:08 pm, Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net>
wrote:
> carl.hir...@gmail.com wrote, On 01/02/07 09:13:
> 
>
> That reminds me of Microsoft with Windows 98SE.
>
>
> 
> 
>
> With UnixWare 1.X, I was able to use the Olsen time zone files and
> recompile the time zone information to reflect new Daylight Savings Time
> dates; see the commands that start with zic* (zicinfo...).
>
> Arthur.

Not familar with UnixWare/OpenUnix/SCO 6 too much yet.  I do know that
in SCO OpenServer 5, /etc/TZ file can be "tweaked" by adding
' ,M3.2.0,M11.1.0" to the TZ= line.

Its "really" important for the DST to be "patched."  It does not seem
worth the cost to upgrade to the latest versions just to have the time
adjusted.

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smlunatick wrote:
> On Jan 31, 6:08 pm, Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net>
> wrote:
> 
>
>
> Not familar with UnixWare/OpenUnix/SCO 6 too much yet.  I do know that
> in SCO OpenServer 5, /etc/TZ file can be "tweaked" by adding
> ' ,M3.2.0,M11.1.0" to the TZ= line.
>
> Its "really" important for the DST to be "patched."  It does not seem
> worth the cost to upgrade to the latest versions just to have the time
> adjusted.
>

In UnixWare, the timezone information is in /etc/TZ/,
the files there are compatible with zcump (the timezone dumper)
and zic (the timezone compiler).

You may safely copy over the respective files from a Linux (intel) box.

Helge

PS: I don't know for sure if these files are independent of the
endianness of the computer (but I suppose so).

--
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke@acm.org

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