tz-brasil8

Usage

Overview

This program contacts a server, gets the timezone information for Brazil and aplies it to the timezone.

Options

This program is suposed to be run without arguments from cron. There are some options available for debugging.

--verbose

same as setting VERBOSE=2 in config file.

--test

same as --verbose.

--force

same as setting VERBOSE=2 in config file. Also removes fetch timestamp, forcing a new fetch.

--allowed

list allowed timezones and exit.

--help

shows a brief usage help and exit.

--refresh

syncronize /usr/share/zoneinfo/(yourzone) with /etc/localtime and exit.

--version

shows program version and exit.

--info

shows timestamp information and exit.

Files

/etc/tz-brasil.conf - configuration file.
/var/lib/tz-brasil/info - last timezone information retrieved.
/etc/cron.d/tz-brasil - cron configuration.
/usr/share/doc/tz-brasil/timezone.txt - read that :-)