Timezone files - Tru64

[Bishop, Nick]

Hi,

The timezone files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ are useful for systems at end of life. Thanks.

May I draw your attention to this line in the @(#)asia      8.41 file from tzdata2009n.tar.gz:

1165: Rule    Jordan  2002    max     -       Mar     lastThu 24:00   1:00    S

The Tru64 version of the zic command is not able to process this line. 

# zic -d asia
"asia", line 1165: invalid time of day

As a crude workaround I replaced the 24:00 with 23:59, making a line that reads

1165: Rule    Jordan  2002    max     -       Mar     lastThu 23:59   1:00    S

You've probably got a better way of dealing with the problem (my solution will be incorrect for one minute prior to changeover), so I'll refrain from sending a patchfile.

I have encountered this problem for these versions of Tru64
* Tru64 5.1 (uname -a => OSF1 creaky.old.machine V5.1 732 alpha)
* Tru64 5.1B-4 (uname -a => OSF1 a.newer.machine V5.1 2650 alpha)

Regards,

Nick Bishop
Analyst Programmer
Services Division
_________________________________________ 
Logica
Ground Floor, 436 Elgar Road
Box Hill VIC 3128
Australia
T:  +61 3 9892 0497 (direct)
F:  +61 3 9898 6270
M: +61 438 366 342
E:  mailto:nick.bishop at logica.com
http://www.logica.com 


Please help Logica to respect the environment by not printing this email  / Pour contribuer comme Logica au respect de l'environnement, merci de ne pas imprimer ce mail /  Bitte drucken Sie diese Nachricht nicht aus und helfen Sie so Logica dabei, die Umwelt zu schützen. /  Por favor ajude a Logica a respeitar o ambiente nao imprimindo este correio electronico.



This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.