Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:38:22 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system Message-ID: <20070310223739.E8914@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <200703101957.MAA18447@lariat.net> References: <200703101957.MAA18447@lariat.net>
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> system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle > the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. There's no > need to update the OS on the system, because it is firewalled from > the Internet and runs the embedded hardware it has to run just fine. > But it does need the clock to be right to perform scheduled tasks. > > If I simply copy /etc/localtime from a FreeBSD 6.1 system to that > one, will it work? Or has the time zone file format changed at all? > (I seem to recall that it was fixed by POSIX, but I don't know if > versions of FreeBSD that old are POSIX-compliant.) > there is 2.2.9 release on FTP. get base distribution and extract needed files - and be sure it will fit
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