[ale] The world didn't end

[Jeff Lightner]

OpenServer Release 5.0.4 - SCO's only response was "upgrade to 5.0.7" as
if THAT were an option.   Trolling Google I found that simply modifying
/etc/TIMEZONE was the fix needed:

New Value:
TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00'

Old Value:
TZ='EST5EDT'

SCO apparently doesn't have zone files anywhere that can be modified so
the above will make it alter the "stored" value for EST5EDT.

I'm assuming the above would work for other US timezones so long as you
substituted the base timezone (e.g. PST8PDT) for EST5EDT.

The timezone man page details why it works.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of H.
To: ale at ale.org
A. Story
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:25 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] The world didn't end

what version of SCO? Did you apply a patch? I am not sure if 5.0.7 or 
earlier has the patch. I know 6.0 does. Only reason I am asking is I 
have a lot of clients that have asked because of the news coverage. Best

answer I can give them is that their system has been wrong half of the 
year for the past 7 years what is a few weeks now?

Adrin


Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
> Amazing all of my UNIX/Linux systems successfully transitioned to the 
> new EDT without a problem AND my lights and cable are still on.
>
> Hell even my unsupported SCO (I know) UNIX box' bizarre fix for 
> unsupported version worked as did my unsupported HP-UX 10.20 servers.
>
> If only I could have figured out how to automatically change the dam 
> AS400 times I wouldn't have even had to have gotten up tonight.
>
>
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