2007 DST update for RH7.2

[Adam Gibson]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 11:11, Paul Rupe wrote:
>   
>> I understand that no one is making updates for 7.2 anymore, so I was
>> wondering if I can adapt the one for 7.3.  The timezone rules are part of
>> the glibc packages.  Do I really need the new version of glibc, or can I
>> simply copy the /usr/share/zoneinfo files from the updated 7.3 packages
>> onto 7.2?  In other words, do the new zoneinfo files require the new glibc
>> to work properly?
>>     
>
> I don't believe so.  In future releases, tzdata was separate from glibc so 
> that one didn't have to do a glibc update to get new zone info, which seems 
> to change on a month to month basis (looking at the world view).
>   
Couldn't you just take a correctly setup and updated 7.3 system's 
/etc/localtime file and copy it to the 7.2's etc directory?  I wonder if 
there are any formating changes of the localtime file that would cause 
problems between glibc versions.  I would think that format is set in 
stone by now.