From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 13 15: 3:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247AC37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jangada.softinfo.com.br (BA000200.user.veloxzone.com.br [200.164.0.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6C643EAC for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vitor@softinfo.com.br) Received: from acaraje (acaraje.softinfo.com.br [192.168.10.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by jangada.softinfo.com.br (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9DM3OgI033698; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:03:24 -0200 (BRST) (envelope-from vitor@softinfo.com.br) Message-ID: <00a301c27304$551ad340$020aa8c0@acaraje> Reply-To: "Vitor de Matos Carvalho" From: "Vitor de Matos Carvalho" To: "Peter Jeremy" Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" References: <000f01c272a4$55c12700$020aa8c0@acaraje> <20021013215429.GB315@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Subject: Re: Time Zone Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:03:16 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Peter :)) These last two lines below: Rule Brazil 2000 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - Does not indicate the beginning of the summer time in the sunday >= 8 of October of 2000 and with the end programmed for the sunday >= 15 of February of 2001? Regards, Vitor de Matos Carvalho System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network FreeBSD - The Power To Serve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jeremy" To: "Vitor de Matos Carvalho" Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Time Zone > On 2002-Oct-13 07:36:05 -0300, Vitor de Matos Carvalho wrote: > >I noticed that to the 0:00 of day 13 of October FreeBSD it changed the zone > >of my clock for the summer schedule. It moved of BRT for BRST. > >However the schedule of summer in the Brazil still did not start here. > > Daylight savings transitions are controlled by /etc/localtime which > is either a copy of, or a link to, one of the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo > This is a binary file containing a converted form of data from (in your > case) /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/southamerica. The latter file includes > the following: > > # Decree 3,592 (2000-09-06) > # adopted by the same states as before. > # Decree 3,630 (2000-10-13) > # repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00. > # Decree 3,632 (2000-10-17) > # repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00. > # Decree 3,916 > # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. > # > # The latest decree listed above says that the following states observe DST: > # AL, BA, CE, DF, ES, GO, MA, MG, MS, MT, > # PB, PE, PI, PR, RJ, RN, RS, SC, SE, SP, TO. > # > # For dates after mid-2002, the following rules are guesses > # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. > Rule Brazil 2000 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S > Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - > > Which indicates that DST starts on the first Sunday on or after 8th October. > See tzfile(5), zdump(8) and zic(8) for complete details. > > The top of the file states: > # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, > # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to > # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). > (and you should raise a FreeBSD PR containing the same information). > > Peter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message