From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 21:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496AA37B6A3 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA6445 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:55:42 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 393 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:59:12 +1000 Message-ID: <38EC18E3.E65492CC@S1.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:56:03 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Australian Eastern DST 2000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi y'all, I have the dubious honour of living in New South Wales, Australia. This year (2000) there is some sporting event happening in September/October, and as a result we'll be required to begin Daylight Savings Time earlier. "How much earlier?" I hear you ask. 2 months! The official start for NSW (not Victoria or Tasmania) this year is "Sunday August 27, 2000" (source: ). I noticed that going onto DST and coming off just recently all happened automagically in FreeBSD. But, I am wondering if the zoneinfo file for Australian EST is set up to cope with the early start in NSW (and ACT) this year? I suspect not. Is this a non-issue, or can we ask who ever looks after the ZoneInfo files to be nice and issue a corrected one for this year? If there is a method of modifying the zoneinfo files myself, then I'll be happy with that as a 'workaround' ;') Thanks and regards, Haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message