Comments on: OS X: Fix Argentina DST October 2009

By: Gon

Gon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:12:21 +0000

@ Bricky I really don't know how to thank you. It works perfect and it was very extremely simple. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

By: Bricky

Bricky — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:56:47 +0000

@Gon I've packaged this up as an installer Gon, try that. Argentina_DST_Update.pkg

By: Gon

Gon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:57:53 +0000

@ Bricky
Sorry for bothering but I’m having this huge problem and I don’t know how to fix it. I read your instructions but I’m not familiarized with these sort of codes. All the instructions I need to type them in “Terminal” at a time? I’ll be very thankfull if you can help me with this and sorry for my ignorance.

Thanks in advance!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:50:51 +0000

@ Bricky

Thank you very much! It worked perfect!
I was looking for a solution since three weeks.

Thanks again…

By: Bricky

Bricky — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:03:58 +0000

@Pablo
The instructions above are for 10.6 Pablo, I’m not sure if they’ll work the same for 10.5.8.

I’d suggest you first check if the new ICU was installed correctly, run the following
ls -l /usr/share/icu/icudt40l.dat
if it says “No such file or directory”, or if the date on the file is wrong (not the date you compiled it), then that’s the problem.

Maybe try downloading the ICU tarball for 10.5.8 instead

curl -O http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ICU/ICU-8.11.4.tar.gz
And proceed with the remainder of the instructions as above. I don’t know if it’ll work, but you may have better luck.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:12:29 +0000

@ Bricky

I installed Xcode and run these commands:
./runConfigureICU MacOSX –with-data-packaging=archive
gnumake
sudo install -o root -g wheel -m 0644 -Sp data/out/icudt40l.dat /usr/share/icu/icudt40l.dat

Then I restarted my Mac and still have the wrong time.

I don’t know what is happening, can you help me, please?

Thanks.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:41:56 +0000

@ Bricky
Hi Bricky, thanks for your help.

The strange thing is that I have wrong time only on the Menu Bar. Correct time is showed on my widgets and, on the zdump.

Do you think I have to compile ICU? Is this the only way? I’m asking because I never compile a thing.

Right now I’m downloading the Xcode (w/ iPhone sdk). I think this is what I need for my MacOS10.5.8.
Can you send me the rights commands?

Thanks again,

Pablo

By: Bricky

Bricky — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:00:46 +0000

@Pablo Hi Pablo, You'll need to download and install Xcode to compile ICU. hth.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:24:10 +0000

Hi, reading this post I cloud change time correctly.

$ zdump America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Mon Jan 25 02:07:44 2010 ART

(no ARST time)

But, when I enter the next commands, this is what I get:

$ ./runConfigureICU MacOSX –with-data-packaging=archive
Running ./configure –with-data-packaging=archive for MacOS X (Darwin) using the GNU C++ compiler

checking for ICU version numbers… release 4.0, library 40.0
checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking host system type… i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log’ for more details.

If the result of the above commands looks okay to you, go to the directory
source in the ICU distribution to build ICU. Please remember that ICU needs
GNU make to build properly…

I’m new to MacOS, so please tell me what I have to do.

Thank you.

Pablo

@Lionel

By: Lionel

Lionel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:17:05 +0000

@ Bricky

Thank you very much for the file! Works perfect!!!!

Best Regards,

Lionel