Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:13:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indiana goes to DST Message-ID: <20060328171334.74548.qmail@web32813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44295F89.2020901@pixelhammer.com>
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--- DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > DAve wrote: > >> Not ever having had to configure DST before, any > advice on a work around > >> since most OSes provide no DST for my timezone? > > > > You underestimate the true power of this operating > system. :-) > > Nah, I underestimated the power of our state > legislature 8^o > > > > > Either change the /etc/localtime symlink to point > to the right timezone file, or > > run /stand/sysinstall, choose "Configure" for > post-install config, select "Time > > Zone", and you'll end up being prompted with these > choices: > > > > x x 1 Eastern Time > > x x 2 Eastern Time - Michigan - most > locations > > x x 3 Eastern Time - Kentucky - > Louisville area > > x x 4 Eastern Time - Kentucky - Wayne > County > > x x 5 Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - > most locations > > x x 6 Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - > Crawford County > > x x 7 Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - > Starke County > > x x 8 Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - > Switzerland County > > > > ...which will do the same thing. > > > > Selections 5 through 8 will no longer be valid in > April. The list of > counties changed. More counties than #6, #7, #8 are > going to Central TZ, > one county is going with "Commerce Time", and item > #5 (most locations) > is switching to DST. > > So I must setup DST manually, or select to #1. I > think. > Take a look at /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica, particularly for Indianapolis. It looks like, at least on a 6-Stable system(March 7), that if you use the Indianapolis choice you will get the DST change. It(the 6-stable zoneinfo file) isn't as new as the one obtained from the link below but the change for Indianapolis looks the same. This has instructions for updating zone file info. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Docs/20060128100824 I had to use this on some 4.11-stable systems that I have in production. If you find any discrepancies in the above, please let me know. Thanks. Dave __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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