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