How To Make A City Time File?

[glmason]

Opie comes with very few time zones specified, I realized that in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America That there is a city for each time zone except Central time, New_York = EST/EDT Denver = MST/MDT and Los_Angeles = PST/PDT but I wanted to make a city info for Chicago CST/CDT but I found the file are in binary, how and what are they compiles in and how can I make one for Chicago? Or where can I otherwise tell the Zaurus that Chicago time is GMT -6/-5?

Larry

[alan]

Same request for Paris, France.

[Hrw]

look at timezones-* packages - they provide all you need.

[glmason]

look at timezones-* packages - they provide all you need.
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Ok that solves the immediate problem, now I got a Chicago time zone... but it doesn't answer the question,
what are these binary files? why binary? and how can I make a city file?

If I wanted enigmas I'd stick with Microsoft and Windows  

Thanks Larry

[lardman]

I think they are just standard Linux timezone files - do a google for 'Linux time zone format', etc., look at things like 'zic'.

Si

[glmason]

look at things like 'zic'.

zic does not seem to be on the Zaurus, I presume it is to big, and the Zaurus can't hole all Linux utilities...

So one would find and desktop type Linux machine, create a city zone file with zic and move the file to the Zaurus? Is that the way to do it?

Mahalo,
Larry

[markk]

So one would find and desktop type Linux machine, create a city zone file with zic and move the file to the Zaurus? Is that the way to do it?

That should work - there's no difference between the zone files on my OZ and Fedora machines.

[glmason]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. a/glm