Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:53:40 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070203231918.9211B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20070203120042.29EBF16A4EA@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:06:42 -0500, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > > > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: [..] > > > > That means you need to update your zoneinfo tables. You can also use > > > > the date command to see if you need updating: > > > > > > > > date -r 1173679260 > > > > > > Yes, thanks, looks like I need to do that, how do I update my zoneinfo > > > tables? > > > > Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new tables as a side-effect of > > the upgrade :) If you don't want to upgrade, just install the > > misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup. > > The last bit (rerunning tzsetup(8)) is good advice for anyone who hasn't run > it in a while. Upgrading from earlier versions of FreeBSD will install the > new tzdata files but it will not touch /etc/localtime. I think that was likely why I followed someone(?)'s advice to link lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36 Apr 12 2006 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney which continues to work despite several world upgrades, and despite living over 500 miles from Sydney :) Cheers, Ian
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