From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 16 16:35:50 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 9435637B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (smtp.sw.oz.au [203.31.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F4B43E6A for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vance@aurema.com) Received: (from vance@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA09362; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:35:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:35:40 +1000 From: Christopher Vance To: Vitor de Matos Carvalho Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Brazil time zone file sets DST incorrectly Message-ID: <20021017093540.A954@aurema.com> References: <035501c2754a$b0bbc2c0$020aa8c0@acaraje> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <035501c2754a$b0bbc2c0$020aa8c0@acaraje>; from vitor@softinfo.com.br on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:31:57PM -0300 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 Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:31:57PM -0300, Vitor de Matos Carvalho wrote: : It would like to leave here a "protest" against the Security Officer Team of : the FreeBSD. You're barking up the wrong tree, twice. : Detected the DST problem, because the Security Team did not notify? It will : be that this error for being of did not enteresse of administrators of : servers who twirl in the E.U.A do not deserve that he is notified? It did : not want that it made mention to my name, nor that patch was used mine, only : that was communicated to all of the occurrence. The correction already was : made in default branch, now goes to wait for more how much time it goes for : RELENG_4 The timezone code, and more particularly the tables used to drive it, comes from somewhere else. You were told who and where to send your correction. Did you do this? And in case you didn't notice, timezones have nothing to do with security - you should be using NTP and UTC for everything that is tied to security. Given these two reasons, I don't think it's reasonable to expect a FreeBSD-specific fix, and I don't think you've established why anybody doing security stuff for FreeBSD should care. -- Christopher Vance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message