[Ubuntu-BD] Daylight Savings - Time Zone patch in Ubuntu?

[Tarin Mahmood]

I just installed tzdata from the repository. it works just fine, So I think
you only need to install tzdata now

Mahmood


On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Russell John <russell.john at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> I'm using tzdata 2009j from jaunty-proposed, and my computer turned to June
> 20 00:00 from June 19 22:59 automatically.
>
> I'll notify the new tzdata file hits the -updates repository.  For now
> either install tzdata 2009j from -proposed, or set your computer time to an
> hour ahead manually.
>
> 2009/6/19 Ammar Karim <ammar.lists at gmail.com>
>
> Okay never mind... a bit of googling shows me this (from
> > http://www.mango.com.bd/bd-dst.php ) :-
> >
> > *3.1.2 Ubuntu*
> >
> >   - Update tzdata by using apt-get command
> >
> >   # apt-get update
> >   # apt-get install tzdata
> >
> >    At the time of writing this article (18-Jun-2009), Ubuntu has not yet
> >   published the required patch in the official update channel. But still
> >   proposed update can be installed from the related proposed update
> > repository
> >   (e.g. hardy-proposed, intrepid-proposed, jaunty-proposed) of Ubuntu.
> > Check
> >   out your distribution name like below:
> >
> >   $ grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/lsb-release
> >   DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> >
> >   And see Testing/Enable
> > Proposed<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed>for
> > documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Now then install
> >   proposed tzdata package like this:
> >
> >   sudo apt-get -t hardy-proposed update
> >   sudo apt-get -t hardy-proposed install tzdata
> >
> >   *3.1.3 Check Timezone*
> >
> >   # zdump -v /etc/localtime
> >
> >   You should see something like this (minimum):
> >
> >   Fri Jun 19 16:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 22:59:59 2009 BDT
> > isdst=0 gmtoff=21600
> >   Fri Jun 19 17:00:00 2009 UTC = Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 2009 BDST
> > isdst=1 gmtoff=25200
> >
> >   Related information: Timezone change for
> > Bangladesh<https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/tzdata/+bug/383444>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ammar Karim <ammar.lists at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > > MS has released a not-so perfect but workable patch and Time Zone
> editor
> > > for its versions of Windows, however what about linux? Rather than
> having
> > to
> > > change the time zone by +1:00 manually and adopting Thailand Time Zone,
> > is
> > > there any script that would enable "Adjust for Daylight Savings" in
> > Gnome?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ammar
> > >
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