New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sat Aug 15 02:33:37 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:30:56PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> One strange thing I notice looking for localtime files with mc and
> hitting Edit by mistake (the first time :) is that both /etc/localtime
> or /etc/avahi/etc/localtime said "converting from Mac format" when
> opened for editing. Is this normal?

Since /etc/localtime is a binary file, which means not text, then it is
expected that accidentally editing it may trigger parts of an editor
that are designed to recognise strange text files.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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