Time Change

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Time Change
started by: JohnJS

Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 06 2007,17:18

Using DSL 3.0.1.
Is there an automatic time change in this version?.
If so, is there a file I could edit.
TIA.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 06 2007,17:35

Daylight Savings Time is encoded in the binary zoneinfo files.
You would have to grab the source files from elsie.nci.nih.gov and then use the zic compiler to create new versions for your area.

Or, much easier, grab dsl-3.3 currently at RC2 which has updated zoneinfo files.

Time to upgrade!

Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 06 2007,17:42

Thanks RobertS.
Have dial-up.
If I order from DSL Store will it be 3.3RC2/3 or 3.2?.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 06 2007,18:29

I don't believe the Store offers anything RC.
I am hoping that v3.3 to go gold very soon.

Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 06 2007,18:58

Thanks.
Will use a friend's high-speed connection to download tonight.
Many thanks for such a useful and practical distro.

Downloaded DSL-3.3RC2.iso.
MD5sum checked out okay.

burned onto cd but file appears as "DSL-3.3RC2.iso".
What did I do wrong?.
Do I need to extract it? and how?

3/10/2007
Read in LQ wiki
mount -o loop -t iso9660 DSL-3.3RC2.iso /mnt/iso after making ISO directory.
but nothing happens.

3/11/2007
Success: code sample:
aterm as super user
cd to where the iso is.
"cdrecord -v -eject speed=20 dev=0,0,0 dsl-3.3RC2.iso"