Next Lunchp
Thursday, May 22, 12:00pm - Barducci Restaurant, Winter Park,FL
Unix, GLIBC and DST oh my!
Most if not all GNU/Linux systems use the GNU Libc for their C Standard Library. Somewhere around glib 2.3 release (2000) library code was modified in all time and date calculations routines to utilize the host systems tzdata file (normally /etc/localtime). In Redhat this happened roughly at release 7.0. What this means if you are unable to obtain fixes for your Linux system you can always download the latest tzdata file (see my procedure at http://www.kevininscoe.com/pub/howtos/applying_dts_changes_to_redhat.txt) and using the Zone Compiler (zic) apply to the system without a reboot. However if your unix system is using a GLIBC older than 2.3 or is not using glib at all you may have a concern on your hands. One way to tell if you system is using the corrected tzdata without rebooting it is to issue the command:
$ date -d '1970-01-01 UTC +1173679260 seconds'
If you see April 1 then indeed your C Library is ignoring tzdata.
Mon Mar 12 01:01:00 EST 2007
CFGEEKS is collection of like-minded geeks, computer, electronic and radio hobbyists and enthusiasts.
Although the list does not stop there many geeks are Ham Radio operators, Electronic Engineers, Computer Programmers and Unix enthusiasts.
CFGEEKS has no regular meetings, has no membership list and in fact is not really organized in any particular way. CFGEEKS exists mainly as the core mailing list and the occasional geek gatherings referred to as "lunchp"s. The "-p" coming from an old MIT lisp way of asking a question in one word (other common forms of lunchps come as dinnerp's, moviep's and skycraftp's). Anyone can start a gathering by sending an email to the core and lunchp mailings lists. The lunchp list exists for those who just want the announcements and not the daily discussions on the core list. As for the mailing lists more information can be found on our mail server: mail.cfgeeks.org. We host several different kinds of mailing lists such as the Stockgeeks list, Gil’s Spy list, The lunchp list for announcements and of course the "core" list: cfgeeks.
Also hosted on the mail server are some other mailing lists of interest to CFGEEKS:
On Kevin Inscoe’s mail server http://mail.kevininscoe.com/mailman/listinfo:
Moviep - Geek discussions of movies past, present and future.
Some CFGEEKs are also Road Geeks, Rail Geeks and Rail Fans.
They also tend to hang out on IRC irc.freenode.net on #cfgeeks or #golug for late night discussions or coordination activities. They can also be found on ham radio on various Orlando area repeaters.
Oh and don't forget to visit the Galleria or the Wiki.