Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:26:48 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Daylight Savings time Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEHECFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080301210420.GA85181@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Erik Trulsson > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:04 PM > To: Lisa Casey > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time > > > 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. > That may work on 5, I don't know. It won't work on 4 since the ports structure is so different now. Ted
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