From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 3 12:53:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7E616A400 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:53:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8E613C467 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id XAA16062; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:53:41 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:53:40 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070203120042.29EBF16A4EA@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:53:47 -0000 On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:06:42 -0500, John Nielsen 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