Put back some timezones

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Put back some timezones
started by: friedgold

Posted by friedgold on Oct. 13 2005,20:06

In DSL the only timezone files supplied are US timezones. It would be nice if some other timezone files were supplied as DSL is used around the world (see < this thread >).

I realise that it would not be possible to include every timezone Knoppix 3.4 has due to space reasons. However the inclusion of some of the most common timezone files would be enough to cover the majority of users. I think at the very least it would be a good idea to include those mentioned in the knoppix-autoconfig script. This would mean that people who specify the regional settings with the lang= cheatcode won't come up against errors like

Code Sample

cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London' : No such file or directory

but instead would have their timezone correctly setup in DSL.

The timezones mentioned in knoppix-autoconfig are:

Code Sample

Asia/Shanghai
Asia/Jerusalem
Asia/Tokyo
Asia/Taipei
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Sofia
Europe/Zurich
Europe/Prague
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Paris
Europe/Dublin
Europe/Rome
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Moscow
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Istanbul
Europe/London

These take up 92k and compress very well (8k compressed). If it is felt that 8k is too much room then some of the less commonly used US timezones could be removed (e.g. US/Hawaii or US/Aleutian)

Posted by NotTheMama on Oct. 14 2005,06:40

Yes Please.

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 14 2005,17:28

I hope that 8K is not too big. If things are that tight, then we are doomed.

Posted by dare2dreamer on Oct. 15 2005,06:56

Sounds like a good place for an extension. :-)

Posted by NotTheMama on Oct. 15 2005,12:02

An extension is loaded at the end. But during knoppix-autoconfig the timezone files are already needed. So I think an extension doesn't work. On a hd-install I once downloaded a debian package to get the timezones. I needed them to use ntpd....

Posted by zoneautonome on Nov. 02 2005,00:56

I found a way to have the good timezone on my mails :
I have copied from another linux my timezone (Europe/Paris for me) in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and have added it to .filetool.lst
then I have added to /opt/bootlocal.sh

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zic -l Europe/Paris
hwclock -s

(or hwclock -u -s if your bios is fixed to UTC time)

and that's it :;):