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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:04:20 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time
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On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:18:52PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suspect my FreeBSD 5.2 system isn't going to handle the change to Daylight Savings Time correctly next weekend:
> 
> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2008
> /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  6 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr  6 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  6 07:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Apr  6 03:00:00 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 26 05:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 26 06:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> 
> Could someone help me remember the steps I need to take to correct this?
> 

Install the misc/zoneinfo port, which will install an updated zoneinfo file on your
machine, and then run tzsetup(8) to update /etc/localtime.




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