The Fijian Government have decided to scrap daylight savings so the zoneinfo file needs to be updated. I fixed my PC by creating a file with the following line: Zone Fiji 12:00 - FJT then ran zic on that file. Strictly speaking the file should probably have the daylight savings stuff in it too with a 'Zone' line with an 'Until' field, but the simple case will suffice for me. /etc/localtime is a copy of the selected zoneinfo file, wouldn't this be better as a symlink?
I don't think we should issue 6.2 erratas because of this (where would thousands of people need to download several megabytes over the net), I believe it will make into next official timezone data and will appear in probably in glibc 2.2.1. glibc 2.2 Fiji record is: # Fiji # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Fiji 1998 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 1999 max - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
I agree an errata would be inappropriate, I just thought it would be worth while raising the issue and posting a fix in case anyone else was looking for a solution. Thanks for the prompt response. 8<-------------------------------------------------- # Fiji # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Fiji 1998 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 1999 max - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT 2000 Aug 31 # Fiji Time 12:00 - FJDT