From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 22:35:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FED16A401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9516213C494 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l12MZ0uE024239; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:35:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:35:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Robert Fitzpatrick Message-ID: <20070202223500.GI44511@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1170430862.16189.8.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20070202163637.GC44511@dan.emsphone.com> <1170455418.16189.42.camel@columbus.webtent.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1170455418.16189.42.camel@columbus.webtent.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:35:01 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > > > I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find > > > out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes > > > coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD > > > 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command > > > and the man page seems to suggest the same usage, but... > > > > > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2007 > > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern > > > US/Eastern Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > > That means you need to update your zoneinfo tables. You can also use > > the date command to see if you need updating: > > > > date -r 1173679260 > > > > Yes, thanks, looks like I need to do that, how do I update my zoneinfo > tables? Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new tables as a side-effect of the upgrade :) If you don't want to upgrade, just install the misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com