From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 01:09:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0C216A41F for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emil@cs.rmit.edu.au) Received: from its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au (its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au [131.170.2.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D71B43D46 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:09:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emil@cs.rmit.edu.au) Received: from wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au (wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au [131.170.24.41]) by its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au (8.13.6/8.13.6/mail4) with ESMTP id k2S192rM011522; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:09:28 +1100 (EST) Received: from goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (root@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au [131.170.24.40]) by wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.12.10/8.12.10/cshub) with ESMTP id k2S17Kw8020902; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (emil@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4/csnode) with ESMTP id k2S17KIL009429; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:20 +1100 (EST) Received: (from emil@localhost) by goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/Submit) id k2S17KVA009428; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:20 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:20 +1100 From: Emil Mikulic To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20060328010719.GA7460@cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <17447.38161.9743.938805@roam.psg.com> <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.10 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D2B4 7C14 0C41 9AE5 8D2B 16B0 D3D6 F910 8E4C 5D35 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost: emil pwned teh intarweb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: Randy Bush , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: tzs for aussies X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:09:35 -0000 On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:47:14PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 21:32:33 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > >i am told that the aussies have gone nuts and have moved > >this year's change from summer time to normal one week. > ... > >so, are there /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/ files for this > >bit of silliness? > > They were committed in zoneinfo/australasia 1.26 last August. It was > MFC'd to 5.x immediately and to 6.x in December. Yeah, this came up at work weeks ago and I did zdump and it gave me the correct output[1] and I thought "hey, cool, FreeBSD is totally on the ball with this DST stuff" and put it out of my mind. Of course, I forgot to update /etc/localtime, which was a very old copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne, so my workstation was off by an hour on Monday morning. =/ [1] zdump -v Australia/Melbourne | grep 2006 | head -2 You want to see: Australia/Melbourne Sat Apr 1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 Australia/Melbourne Sat Apr 1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000 -- And then the squirrel ate Dib's greasy head.