From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 15:12:13 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 E8A0A16A400 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kwc@shell01.TheWorld.com) Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls6.std.com [192.74.137.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043AD13C458 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:12:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kwc@shell01.TheWorld.com) Received: from shell.TheWorld.com (root@shell01.theworld.com [192.74.137.71]) by TheWorld.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2EF1fVN013961; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:01:45 -0400 Received: from shell01.TheWorld.com (localhost.theworld.com [127.0.0.1]) by shell.TheWorld.com (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l2EF1euv265271; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kwc@localhost) by shell01.TheWorld.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l2EF1e2Z267703; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Cochran Message-Id: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pcls6.std.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2839/Wed Mar 14 05:24:32 2007 on pcls6.std.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:12:14 -0000 Hello -questions: This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of answer I need... I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message that came out on -announce in late February). One is 4.10-stable, last updated late November 2004 & the other is 5.4-release. Cvsup brings /usr/src in order but I can't update ports (yet) to get misc/zoneinfo and it doesn't look like I can just "transfer" the /usr/share/zoneinfo bits over from /usr/src without a {build,install}world (also impractical at this time). Best I can tell from the message that came from -announce sometime back, the same fix(es) would apply to both the 4 & 5 branches. Is there a "proper" way to fix the timezone on these machines "manually" pending the "real" change that will happen in the system according to the previous rules/schedule? (e.g. Fix it temporarily/manually but not clobber the original rules.) Or is there some way to install the new cvsup'ed zoneinfo bits into an "old" system so I can run tzsetup and have everything fixed "correctly?" I'm in US Central timezone and I've seen it reported as CST6CDT (I guess that's in SysV). FAQ/doc/book pointers/references are welcome of course - I'm still digging around in both the Handbook & Complete FreeBSD and wherever else I can find... Many thanks, -kc