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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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regards, Gunnar       ---_ \<,_
email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_)


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