Comments on OS X: Fix Argentina DST October 2009

By: whats the plot » updating osx for egypt’s dst changes

2011-04-29T06:03:34Z

[...] how do you properly fix it? here’s a set of instructions that i adopted (based off of this post from people in Argentina and this post from new zealand) to properly solve the problem in [...]

By: damian

2011-01-17T15:22:49Z

try it on one of my servers, 10.5.8, and i only can use ICU-8.11.4.tar.gz woks perfect, remains iphone, ipad, etc without jailbreak!

By: damian

2011-01-14T15:08:14Z

que loco, apple sigue con este problema en ipad, iphones, ipod touch, habra alguna manera de pedirles que lo actualizen en iOS 4.3 ?

By: Matias

2010-11-29T06:00:58Z

Dude, you rock! I’ve been struggling with this for a long time… I owe you a chilled Quilmes, at the least!

By: Gon

2010-02-06T16:12:21Z

@ 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

2010-02-05T09:56:47Z

@Gon

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

By: Gon

2010-02-05T01:57:53Z

@ 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

2010-01-30T19:50:51Z

@ Bricky

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

Thanks again…

By: Bricky

2010-01-27T21:03:58Z

@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

2010-01-25T16:12:29Z

@ 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.