[sdnog] Impact of new timezone in Sudan

[sara alamin]

Hi all,

Some one asked me this:

How can I push new time zone to all computer ( clients) from Active
Directory (domain) ?


Regards,
--Sara Alamin--


On 1 Nov 2017 12:13 am, "Manhal Mohammed" <manhal_muhamed at hotmail.com>
wrote:


I hope if Admins can give us a feedback about their experience on this
after the changes
"Problems and how they dealt with it "So it can be a document for future
cases
^_^

Thank you Mr Philip for guiding us on this historical "hour " :)


"Hope to find you all well  after 21 minutes "


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On 31 Oct 2017, at 19:18, Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:

> On 2017-10-31 15:13:46 (+0100), Manhal Mohammed wrote:
>
> This will be a great help for admins who run freeBSD also ISPs in sudan "
> most of their servers run freeBSD as I know"
> Hope this discussion find them on time ^_^
>
> Happy to help. :) Glad they like FreeBSD. :)
>
> "I will install a FreeBSD on a VM just to try it out "
> Can we do the same for Linux?
>
> Linux is a mess. Every distribution is different and I have no idea which
> ones have updated their timezone databases and whether they push updates to
> supported releases.
>
> If in doubt, you can probably update your timezone manually. Note, I have
> not tested this on any actual Linux system:
>
> % wget https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2017c.tar.gz
> % mkdir tzdata2017c && tar -C tzdata2017c -zxvf tzdata2017c.tar.gz
> % zic -d zoneinfo tzdata2017c/africa
> # su
> [root password]
> # cp zoneinfo/Africa/Khartoum /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Khartoum
>
> Some Linux systems also install a copy of the timezone data to
> /etc/localtime instead of a symlink. Make sure you actually use the new
> timezone data:
>
> # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Khartoum /etc/localtime
>
> Check that your system is correct:
>
> # zdump -v Africa/Khartoum | grep 2017
> Africa/Khartoum  Tue Oct 31 20:59:59 2017 UTC = Tue Oct 31 23:59:59 2017 EAT isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
> Africa/Khartoum  Tue Oct 31 21:00:00 2017 UTC = Tue Oct 31 23:00:00 2017 CAT isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
>
> Note that if you make manual changes, some Linux systems might get cranky
> when you try to update it later. Or if might silently replace your
> corrected timezone data with outdated timezone data next time you update.
>
> Good luck. :)
>
> Philip
>
> --
> Philip Paeps
> Senior Reality Engineer
> Ministry of Information
>
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