On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:52:09 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > I'm living in the Turks & Caicos Islands (in the sunny Caribbean). > > > > Running Debian Testing which is kept up to date. > > > > "zdump -v America/Grand_Turk | grep 2007" gives me : > > > > 117:America/Grand_Turk Sun Apr 1 04:59:59 2007 UTC = Sat Mar 31 > > 23:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 > > 118:America/Grand_Turk Sun Apr 1 05:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 > > 01:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 > > 119:America/Grand_Turk Sun Oct 28 03:59:59 2007 UTC = Sat Oct 27 > > 23:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 > > 120:America/Grand_Turk Sun Oct 28 04:00:00 2007 UTC = Sat Oct 27 > > 23:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 > > > > all of which is patently untrue, in that the TCI Government in their > > infinite wisdom have chosen to follow the absurd (for us) US > > adjustments to the DST dates. > > > > Presumably this occurs because the Grand_Turk information > > in /usr/share/zoneinfo has not been correctly updated. How can I go > > about getting this right? > > I think the relevant utility is "zic", the zone information compiler. > I have never had to do this myself, so I am not sure if it works like > that, but I would hope that you can redirect the output of zdump to a > file, edit it to have the correct dates for the change to/from DST and > then run it through zic to get a corrected time zone file. You > probably have to study the manpages a bit to find the necessary > options for the command. If you have the new file, make sure you copy > it to /etc/localtime so that it will become effective. (AFAIK, when > you set up your timezone with tzconfig then the corresponding file > from /usr/share/zoneinfo is also copied to /etc/localtime without > further changes.) Thanks for this. Since the man page for zic seems to have been written in 1997, and zic is not included in Debian, I'm a little reluctant to go where I'm probably going to get lost. As suggested earlier I've filed a bug report against tzdata and trust this will correct the problem. As a further issue, how does registration of locales work? The only sensible choice I have for a locale is en_US.UTF-8. While this gets the job done, should there not be a locale choice for each country on the planet (and maybe several for some countries). I can choose America/Grand_Turk for a time zone, but have no such choice for a locale. I'd be happy to contribute the necessary information for a TCI locale, but how to go about getting it built-in. Chris Dunn Turks and Caicos Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
