Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:24:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> Cc: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting a non-standard timezone. Message-ID: <20000826122415.I52219@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000826024138.B37521@diskfarm.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 02:41:38AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826132000.6887A-100000@garfield.bmk.com.au> <20000826024138.B37521@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 2:41:38 +0000, Alan Clegg wrote:
> Unless the network is lying to me again, Brendan Kosowski said:
>
>> I know how to do this at the user level ( by setting the TZ variable in
>> the .profile to a posix compliant format, eg. XYZ-11 ) but I do not know
>> how to do this at the system default level.
>
> Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo, pick the right one and either copy or link
> it to /etc/localtime
>
> Now, if you have a non-standard timezone (one that is not represented in
> any of the /usr/share/zoneinfo), I can't help...
There are a couple of isolated cases of this. The South-East of
Western Australia, between Caiguna and the South-Australian border, is
8 hours and 45 minutes ahead of UTC, but no time zone file exists for
it. You can make your own like this:
1. Add the following information to
/usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia:
--- australasia 2000/03/29 14:01:42 1.15
+++ australasia 2000/08/13 04:42:51
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s
8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
8:00 - WST
+
+Zone Australia/Nullarbor 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec
+ 8:45 - NST
+
# Queensland
#
# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01):
2. In the same directory, do a 'make install'.
3. Do
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Nullarbor /etc/localtime
Greg
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