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Re: Modified Unix Timezone Files for Israel (2000-2004)



On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:

> Is there a problem with ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile?

The zicfile there is based on the latest version of 'asia' in the worldwide
repository at NIH (ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000?.tar.gz); I have
no idea on which version Debian Linux based its distribution on.

> [05:17:26 /tmp]$ wget ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/linux/zicfile -q
> [05:17:45 /tmp]$ ls -l zicfile
> -rw-r--r--  1 shaul    shaul       46409 Jul 27 04:54 zicfile
> [05:17:49 /tmp]$ /usr/sbin/zic -d /tmp zicfile
> [05:18:50 /tmp]$ ls -1 Asia/ | wc
>    60      60     474
> [05:19:16 /tmp]$ ls -1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/ | wc
>    76      76     626
> [05:19:25 /tmp]$ ls -1 Indian/ | wc
>     2       2      16
> [05:19:33 /tmp]$ ls -1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Indian/ | wc
>    11      11      93
> [05:19:42 /tmp]$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/ > current
> [05:31:44 /tmp]$ ls Asia/ | diff -y current -
> Aden                                                          Aden
> [...]
> Yerevan                                                       Yerevan
> [05:32:57 /tmp]$
> 
> 
> Some of those differences are due to hard links. For example, Tel_Aviv and
> Jerusalem. But others are not: nor Anadyr nor Irkutsk are not hard links to
> anything in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia.
> I wonder if these differences are seen on Linux distros other then Debian.
> Are they significant? Why they are there in the first place?
> --
> 	
> 	--Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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