From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 1 11:59:10 2006 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 38D7F16A40F for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646C843CBB for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:58:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2723404wxc for ; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.83.8 with SMTP id g8mr8504133wxb.1164974339989; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h36sm36935293wxd.2006.12.01.03.58.59; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0631ABA67; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 06:58:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439ABB833; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 06:58:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:59:14 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.NET In-Reply-To: <20061201185732.Y6055@odyssey.apana.org.au> References: <20061201185732.Y6055@odyssey.apana.org.au> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20061201065446.1979.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.28.01 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:59:10 -0000 On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote: > To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving > for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make > life harder. The dates are as follows: > > First on: 2:00am Dec 3 > 2007-2008: 2:00am Oct lastSun (ON) > 2007-2009: 2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF) > > If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something like (sorry if > field formatting doesn't come out properly): > > > # Western Australia > Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec > 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul > 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 2 > 8:00 AW WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 - WST > > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE > LETTER/S > Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - > Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - > Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - > > Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE branches for > these changes, or will most need to do them manually? > > The gazetted changes/references are at: > > http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/ I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell script to facilitate updating this system. ********************************************************************* #!/usr/local/bin/bash mkdir tz cd tz wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - ********************************************************************* Be sure to read the documentation obviously. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time!