From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 3:55:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f181.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BF637B719; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jautajums@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:55:20 -0800 Received: from 195.13.160.40 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:55:20 GMT X-Originating-IP: [195.13.160.40] From: "Vienkarsi Jautajums" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Small HOW TO "fixing timeozne" for those who are forgotten. Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:55:20 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2001 11:55:20.0895 (UTC) FILETIME=[77BFD4F0:01C0B522] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Since many ppl uses older FreeBSD boxes and timezone changes appears more frequent than "system updates", here comes an easy way to make update for timezone files. ------------------------------------------------------------ cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2001a.tar.gz tar zxvf tzdata2001a.tar.gz make install tzsetup ------------------------------------------------------------ file you must fetch from ftp must be newest up to date tzdata?????.tar.gz PS why not to make script in share/zoneinfo directory that updates automaticly ??? wbr *Rat _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message