From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 16 19:34: 8 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 69D5C37B401; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail3.alcanet.com.au [208.178.117.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C07943EAC; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.4/Alcanet1.3) with ESMTP id g9H2Y3VG006345; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:34:04 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with ESMTP id 2002101712340217:64121 ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:34:02 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9H2Y1eT037021; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:34:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9H2Y11v037020; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:34:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:34:01 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Vitor de Matos Carvalho Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Brazil time zone file sets DST incorrectly Message-ID: <20021017023401.GR32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Vitor de Matos Carvalho , FreeBSD-Stable References: <035501c2754a$b0bbc2c0$020aa8c0@acaraje> <20021017093540.A954@aurema.com> <20021017013234.GC57421@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021017013234.GC57421@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 17/10/2002 12:34:02 PM, Serialize by Router on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 17/10/2002 12:34:04 PM, Serialize complete at 17/10/2002 12:34:04 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 On 2002-Oct-17 11:02:34 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 9:35:40 +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:31:57PM -0300, Vitor de Matos Carvalho wrote: >>> Detected the DST problem, because the Security Team did not notify? I fail to see how either FreeBSD-Core or the FreeBSD Security team can be held responsible for failing to notify people of the implications of decisions make by the Brazilian parliament. It might have been preferable if these time changes were imported into FreeBSD earlier, but IMHO, Vitor needs to take more responsibility for the correct operation of systems under his control. If correct DST transitions are important to you and you are aware that the official DST rules covering your system have changed recently, you should verify that the changes have been installed (eg using zdump). I notice that the Brazilian zoneinfo rules include the comment: # For dates after mid-2002, the following rules are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. This suggests that if Brazilian time is important to you, you should independently verify that the rules are correct. >Note that these changes are not the same as Vitor's, and they contain >reasoning we haven't seen before. About the only thing that hasn't >happened is closing the PR. I'll see about getting that done. Shouldn't this wait until the updates are MFC'd. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message