[(slightly) O/T] zic & leap seconds on Solaris 9

Paul Eggert eggert at twinsun.com
Mon May 12 05:18:29 UTC 2003


> From: "Mariano Absatz" <baby at baby.com.ar>
> Date: 	Tue, 06 May 2003 11:12:03 -0300

> My (uninformed) guess is that maybe the old libraries cannot
> understand leap seconds although they are compiled in the zone
> files...

That sounds plausible.

> How could I replace the old version of the zoneinfo database, tools and 
> libraries with a newer one?

You could probably use link-editor magic to do it.  Type "man crle" for
more.  I haven't done this myself, though.

> Does anyone know of a ready-made Solaris 9 package I can use?

Sorry, I don't.



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