[mdlug] Are you an April fool?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Richard Harding wrote:
> Mathew Enders wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 19:27 -0500, Robert Meier wrote:
>>   
>>> You can check by typing into a shell:
>>>     bash> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>>> (Your distro probably has a graphical tool as well, check your documentation.)
>>> (Your distro may require admin privileges to run zdump.)
>>>
>>>     
>> What if you recieve this error
>> /etc/localtime: /etc/localtime: cannot execute binary file
>>
>> This is the command I attempted to execute
>> sudo bash> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>>
>> I am running Kubuntu 6.06 with this kernel
>> 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007
>> (result of uname -rv
>>   
> 
> the bash part I think was just his command prompt.
> 
> Try :
> sudo zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

In this case, I would do

sudo /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

Just to eliminate the problem of /usr/sbin not being in his $PATH