[xubuntu-users] Time zones in Xubuntu 14 and 16?

[Knute Johnson]

Thanks, that's a good idea too.  I'll look into that.

knute...

On 4/8/22 20:48, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Knute Johnson <groups at knutejohnson.com> writes:
> 
>> I've got a couple hundred Xubuntu 14 and 16 boxes running in a closed
>> network in Nevada.  Nevada is talking about changing timezones as is
>> Congress for the whole country.  These boxes have no access to the
>> internet.  They currently sync time with a GPS unit on their
>> network. Accurate time is critical for the applications running on
>> these computers.  I think they are all running NTP as opposed to the
>> timedatectl service that is running on current Xubuntu.
> 
> You should be able to install the tzdata package from a newer xubuntu
> release.  That package only depends on
> 
>       Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
> 
> which I assume will be available even in Xubuntu 14 and 16.  Also, as
> far as I am aware, there has been no change in the format of the
> timezone files since then.
> 
> Download the package on a current Ubuntu host which is connected to
> the internet by running
> 
>      apt-get download tzdata
> 
> copy that package file, e.g. tzdata_2022a-0ubuntu0.20.04_all.deb to
> your Xubuntu 14 and 16 hosts and install it as root
> 
>      dpkg -i tzdata_2022a-0ubuntu0.20.04_all.deb
> 
> Before installing, you could check if the new zone files actually work
> on your systems:
> 
>      mkdir tmp; cd tmp
>      ar x ../tzdata_2022a-0ubuntu0.20.04_all.deb data.tar.xz
>      tar xf data.tar.xz ./usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
>      TZ=$PWD/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York date
> 
> If this shows the correct New York time you should be able to safely
> install the package.
> 
> urs
> 


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Knute Johnson