Unruh wrote:
> "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> I'm trying to fix things for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time
>> change. We're using a rather old Red Hat Linux system. (Please, no
>> questions about why we haven't upgraded.)
>
>> A couple of places recommended downloading the timezone files from
>> ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and running zic on the files, but I'm not
>> sure it worked right. I don't know if I did something wrong, or if
>> I'm wrong to expect different output from what I'm getting...
>
>> I went to that site and downloaded and unpackaged tzcode2007c.tar.gz
>> and tzdata2007c.tar.gz. First, in tzcode2007c, I did a "make" to
>> rebuild zic and zdump. (It complained about yearistype.sh not being
>> found in tzcode2007c, so I symlinked the one I found in tzdata2007c
>> and continued.) Then, in tzdata2007c, I tried to run zic on the
>> files, using the zic I just built. All the files except three,
>> iso3166.tab, zone.tab, and yearistype.sh, looked like source files for
>> zic, so I ran it with a command like this:
>
>> zic -d mytestdir [a-f]* [l-s]*
>
>
> DO you really live everywhere in th eworld?
> northamerica is the only one youneed to compile.
>
While this is probably true, it is not necessarily so.
If the O.P. runs his machine as a computer server, where people can login
from anywhere in the world either by dial-up (extremely unlikely) or over
the Internet, he would want all the time zones compiled in since each user
might be in a different one.

Remember that the UNIX O.S. was originally designed as a multi-user system
and all the users had dumb terminals. You could certainly use an old Windows
machine as a dumb terminal, though you would probably prefer to have it run
an X server. They used to make X-terminals, but the demand for them is so
low that they cost more than a PC the last time I looked.

It still works, though. I have run programs on this machine (e.g., Firefox)
from another machine on my LAN. It was kind-of funny. My sister was logged
into this machine with her login, and was running Firefox. I was logged into
this machine from my other machine, and I was running Firefox as well. Since
the Internet connection is very fast, we did not even step on one-another's
toes. Neither of use was doing real-time videos, though.

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