On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:43:34AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Tell me your timezone and I can send you the files you need then. > Is the idea itself acceptable to you? Actually, I've done it on my own, but thanks for offering. It was done by using two files extracted from the slackware (my OS) glibc-zoneinfo package. The first file for my timezone (US Pacific) has gone permanently into /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/ and I've used the second file (timeconfig, which is actually a timezone configuration program normally found in /usr/sbin) to do the initial configuration and then removed it from the system. This has achieved a functional installation of zoneinfo that has added only 1KB to the system (as opposed to installing the whole zoneinfo package, which would have wasted about 2MB in hard drive space with no further benefits). I have to point out that I had /sbin/hwclock already installed. This is a program called by a couple of /etc/rc.d/ scripts to synchronize the hardware and system clocks at startup and shutdown. I apologize for not realizing any sooner that this was not a mutt issue after all. Thank you all who have contributed here making possible this learning experience. C. Byspel
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