Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:22:19 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Timezone question Message-ID: <19990404182219.A61737@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <19990404211052.C2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:10:52PM %2B0930 References: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se> <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> <19990404130308.B61426@sr.se> <19990404211052.C2142@lemis.com>
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On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:10:52PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 April 1999 at 13:03:08 +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It is. You can read it with hexdump, but, like object files, you're
> better off reading the source :-) There's a little extra work involved
> in guessing which source file created which object file, but it's not
> that difficult.
No, it wasn't, and I don't understand why I didn't see your full path to
the information the first time I read the answer :-)
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