Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:39:31 +1100 From: "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> To: "DAve" <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Indiana goes to DST Message-ID: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F111AA86@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of DAve > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:58 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Indiana goes to DST >=20 > Dave McCammon wrote: >=20 > > Take a look at /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica, > > particularly for Indianapolis. > > It looks like, at least on a 6-Stable system(March 7), > > that if you use the Indianapolis choice you will get > > the DST change. It(the 6-stable zoneinfo file) isn't > > as new as the one obtained from the link below but the > > change for Indianapolis looks the same. > >=20 > > This has instructions for updating zone file info.=20 > >=20 > https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Doc > s/20060128100824 > > I had to use this on some 4.11-stable systems that I > > have in production. > >=20 > > If you find any discrepancies in the above, please let > > me know. >=20 > An excellent link, thank you very much. That will ensure my=20 > file times=20 > are correctly calculated as well. >=20 > DAve >=20 > --=20 > This message was checked by forty monkeys and > found to not contain any SPAM whatsoever. >=20 > Your monkeys may vary It was necessary for me to run tzsetup again to reset /etc/localtime when I did a similar adjustment for the change to daylight savings rules during the Commonwealth Games here in Australia. Alternatively you could copy the appropriate zone file as follows cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne /etc/localtime after applying the new datafile (this is the sequence I used last december)=20 # cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo # tar zxf tzdata2005r.tar.gz # make # make install # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne /etc/localtime --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material.=20 E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.***
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