Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:20 +1100 From: Emil Mikulic <emil@cs.rmit.edu.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tzs for aussies Message-ID: <20060328010719.GA7460@cs.rmit.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <17447.38161.9743.938805@roam.psg.com> <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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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.
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