From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 4 4: 5:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE1A1515E for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18417 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:03:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21594 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:03:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA61471 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:03:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990404130308.B61426@sr.se> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:03:08 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Timezone question Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se> <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 01:20:26PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 01:20:26PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 4 April 1999 at 4:46:42 +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > I have a question that has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but anyway. When > > was the change to summertime in USA? > > It will happen today (Sunday) at between 07:00 and 13:00 UTC. You can > find this information in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica: the > relevant part of the information (which is used to build the zoneinfo > files installed in /etc/localtime) is: > > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S > Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S > Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D How do I read the /etc/localtime file? It seems to be in binary format. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message