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Time Zone Patch
for Euopean
NEXTSTEP users
Sun Sep 12 16:35:11 MET DST 1993
By Klaus Bscheid, klaus@ideal.muc.de, Germany
Bjùrn Asle Valde, valde@uib.no, Norway
To set the timezone and date/time with NEXTSTEP you use the
Preferences application. There's a small problem though, the
timezone is not set correctly in most europeans countries. Supplied
is a small shell-script and a patch-file to correct this situation.
To apply the patch, simply:
- login as superuser ("root") and double click the PatchTimeZone
icon, or
- Become superuser in a terminal window and key in:
sh PatchTimeZone
IMPORTANT
This patch is known to be required for NEXTSTEP version 3
and 3.1, and have been tested with those versions of the
operating systems. It should be rather safe to apply the patch,
and a copy of the original file (before patching) is made. If you
apply the patch it's your responsibility though, of course.
TECHNICAL NOTE
The timezone's are located in /etc/zoneinfo, only Preferences.app
won't let you select it. The patch supplies new labels to the INFO
segment using the segedit utility. A copy of the original Prefences
is copied to /NextApps/Preferences.app/Preferences.orig
The patch itself is very easy using the supplied __INFO.labels file, and
can be applied like this "by hand" assuming the file is copied to /tmp:
cd /NextApps/Preferences.app
cp -p Preferences Preferences.orig
segedit Preferences.orig -replace __INFO labels /tmp/__INFO.labels -o Preferences
The supplied script PatchTimeZone does this with a little error
checking so that non-technical users can easily apply the patch.
Regards,
Bjùrn & Klaus
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