From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 21:54:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE8C16A400 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=05822b7d05@iecc.com) Received: from tom.iecc.com (tom.iecc.com [208.31.42.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D32F13C467 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:54:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=05822b7d05@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 28638 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2007 21:27:51 -0000 Received: from mail.iecc.com (208.31.42.99) by mail.iecc.com with QMQP; 10 Mar 2007 21:27:51 -0000 Date: 10 Mar 2007 21:27:51 -0000 Message-ID: <20070310212751.2637.qmail@simone.iecc.com> From: John Levine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200703101957.MAA18447@lariat.net> Organization: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: brett@lariat.net Subject: Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:54:34 -0000 In article <200703101957.MAA18447@lariat.net> you write: >I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded >system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle >the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. I just updated my antique BSDI 4.3 systems, and it turned out to take about five minutes. See if your system has the zic time zone compiler installed, probably in /usr/sbin or some place like that. If so, pick up the new source file /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica from a current fbsd system, become superuser, and run it through zic. It should automatically install all of the updated files in the right place. If you can't find a copy of zic, you'll need to figure out whether that version of fbsd uses the old or new timezone format. The old format starts with a bunch of binary zeros, the new format with the string TZif. If it uses the new format, just copy the timezone files from any other fbsd system. If it uses the old format, drop me a line privately and I'll send you the files from a bsdi box. R's, John