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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!not-for-mail From: Samath Wijesundera <samath@slt.lk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting the Sri Lanka Time Zone Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 16:38:16 +0600 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 35 Message-ID: <33993A18.122@slt.lk> References: <3394E7D5.7FDD@slt.lk> <5n4g3g$k9m@tooting.netapp.com> Reply-To: samath@slt.lk NNTP-Posting-Host: kandy.slt.lk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) To: Guy Harris <guy@netapp.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42560 Guy Harris wrote: > > Samath Wijesundera <samath@slt.lk> wrote: > >I am a Sri lankan and am using the FreeBSD 2.2.1 and when I select the > >time zone as LKT it gives > > > > GMT+0630 > > > >But this should be GMT+0600 > > > >Can someone help me on setting my timezone correctly. > > If you have Internet FTP access, fetch the latest version of the "Arthur > Olson" time zone data from "elsie.nci.nih.gov", in the file > "pub/tzdata1997f.tar.gz", and run, as "root", "zic" on the "asia" file; > it will update the Sri Lanka time zone file (the setting for which is > "Asia/Colombo") to reflect the change that was made, according to the > comments in the latest "asia" file, at 1996-10-26 00:30. > -- > Reply, or follow up, but don't do both, please. > > postmaster@localhost > postmaster@127.0.0.1 Guy, Thank you !, this works and the file at elsie.nci.nih.gov is upto date too. Do not know why FreeBSD release does not have the correct timezone file ! Samath Sri Lanka