Re: Timezone update in SCO

2009-03-27 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Doron Shikmoni, from the post of Fri, 27 Mar: > Hi Ira, > > See: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/aix/timezone.2009 > You mean the good-ol' AIX has no better, "zic"-like solution for this? that's hillarious in a very sad way... man, I have barely t

Timezone update in SCO

2009-03-27 Thread Ira Abramov
Spent some time yesterday at a client with an antique SCO 5.0.7 machine, trying to get it to do IST/IDT switching done right. You can take the following wither as a helpful advice or a funny horror story of "how not to do things" :) First, I went to the huji FTP, but there were timezo

Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior

2002-10-30 Thread mnna4
quot;street" reference is UTC (GMT). So, "correct" representation is IST - 2 == UTC while most of us use UTC + 2 = IST - Original Message - From: "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior

2002-10-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior": > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is the way I always remember it being it on UNIX; West of > > England (e.g., the USA) was posit

Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior

2002-10-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the way I always remember it being it on UNIX; West of > England (e.g., the USA) was positive offsets, east (e.g., Israel) > was negative. The confusion is, apparently, due to the fact that the normal time reporting lists time as UTC + offset,

Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior

2002-10-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior": > I set the same timezone GMT+2 in three different machines, running the following O/S: (note that you usually use "XYZ+2", where XYZ is the name you're going to call the timezon

Timezone GMT+2 and Date behavior

2002-10-29 Thread avi_kosk
Hi,   I set the same timezone GMT+2 in three different machines, running the following O/S:   Tru64 4.0D, Solaris 8, Linux RH 7.2   In order to get the time difference between the GMT+2 time and the UTC time, I just typed the "date" and "date -u" in all the three machi

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:49, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: Timezone setup": > > The answer is POSIX compliance. POSIX has this bizzare notion of how to > > handle time zones. it involves the TZ variable and the time

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: Timezone setup": > The answer is POSIX compliance. POSIX has this bizzare notion of how to > handle time zones. it involves the TZ variable and the timezone file. > > Glibc must support it to be POSIX compliant but si

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:38:58 +0300 > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote about "Timezone setup": > > > How can I update ti

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
Thank you. This was most usefull answer I heard at this list for a long time.. :) On 23 Sep 2002 17:44:40 +0300 Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:40, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > > > I'm a little bit confused about how to set

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:40, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > I'm a little bit confused about how to set timezone in Linux computer Yes, I can understand why... :-) > > There is /etc/timezone file, /etc/localtime file, and TZ environment variable. > Ok, /etc/localtime I set

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:38:58 +0300 "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote about "Timezone setup": > > How can I update time with ntpdate utility (I can not afford ntpd) - so the > > computer time

Re: Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote about "Timezone setup": > How can I update time with ntpdate utility (I can not afford ntpd) - so the > computer time (saved in UTC) will be updated ? In what sense can you not "afford" ntpd? It doesn't cost any money

Timezone setup

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Sternberg
I'm a little bit confused about how to set timezone in Linux computer (RH). There is /etc/timezone file, /etc/localtime file, and TZ environment variable. Ok, /etc/localtime I set to be file compiled with zic utility. What about /etc/timezone and environment variable ? Why do we need th

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002, Ehud Karni wrote about "Re: timezone": > On 04 Aug 2002 19:36:12 +0300, Erez Doron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > thanks for the code. is it GPL'D ? (may i use it). > > anyway, python's time.timezone returns -7200 while t

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Ehud Karni
On 04 Aug 2002 19:36:12 +0300, Erez Doron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks for the code. is it GPL'D ? (may i use it). Yes, you may. It's not GPLed because it too small to have a copyright, Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Ehud Karni
hat's because my code take the DST (daylight saving time) into the offset automatically (I commented about it in my original post). > On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 19:20, Ehud Karni wrote: > > On 04 Aug 2002 18:54:44 +0300, Erez Doron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Erez Doron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i am writing a small app in C and i need to get the timezone > > ( e.g. -2:00 for israel ) > > how do i do that ? > > > > the timezone variable from returns 0 > > Bellow is my function for getting the offset (It sh

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Ehud Karni
On 04 Aug 2002 18:54:44 +0300, Erez Doron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am writing a small app in C and i need to get the timezone > ( e.g. -2:00 for israel ) > how do i do that ? > > the timezone variable from returns 0 Bellow is my function for getting the offse

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002, Erez Doron wrote about "timezone": > hi > > i am writing a small app in C and i need to get the timezone > ( e.g. -2:00 for israel ) > how do i do that ? > > the timezone variable from returns 0 Try running ctime(time(0)) (for examp

Re: timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 18:54, Erez Doron wrote: > i am writing a small app in C and i need to get the timezone > ( e.g. -2:00 for israel ) > how do i do that ? > > the timezone variable from returns 0 Call tzset() before accessing this variable. -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAI

timezone

2002-08-04 Thread Erez Doron
hi i am writing a small app in C and i need to get the timezone ( e.g. -2:00 for israel ) how do i do that ? the timezone variable from returns 0 erez. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Updated timezone files

2000-10-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote about "Re: Updated timezone files": > Hi, Ilya! > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:09:28AM +0300, you wrote the following: > > > So, Shiranski's offer didn't hold up and we ended with > > a need for a new timezo

Re: Updated timezone files

2000-10-12 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Ilya! On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:09:28AM +0300, you wrote the following: > So, Shiranski's offer didn't hold up and we ended with > a need for a new timezone file yet again - > anyone has a new one updated? The file in ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linu

Re: Updated timezone files

2000-10-11 Thread Jean-Daniel PAUGET
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > So, Shiranski's offer didn't hold up and we ended with > a need for a new timezone file yet again - > anyone has a new one updated? this one is quite good : ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

Updated timezone files

2000-10-11 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
So, Shiranski's offer didn't hold up and we ended with a need for a new timezone file yet again - anyone has a new one updated? -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Modified Unix Timezone Files for Israel (2000-2004)

2000-07-27 Thread Ephraim Silverberg
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Is there a problem with ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile? The zicfile there is based on the latest version of 'asia' in the worldwide repository at NIH (ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000?.tar.gz); I have no idea on which version De

Re: Modified Unix Timezone Files for Israel (2000-2004)

2000-07-27 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there a problem with ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile? [05:17:26 /tmp]$ wget ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile -q [05:17:45 /tmp]$ ls -l zicfile -rw-r--r--1 shaulshaul 46409 Jul 27 04:54 zicfile [05:17:49 /tmp]$ /usr/sbin/zic -d /tmp zicfile

Re: Timezone

2000-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
http://www.canaan.co.il/users/miki/timezone/index.txt Herouth Maoz wrote: > Does anybody have an alternative location where I can find the directions on > how to compile a proper Israeli timezone file? The one mentioned on the > linux-il website unfortunately refuses passive ftp. &g

Timezone

2000-04-10 Thread Herouth Maoz
Does anybody have an alternative location where I can find the directions on how to compile a proper Israeli timezone file? The one mentioned on the linux-il website unfortunately refuses passive ftp. Herouth = To unsubscribe, send