Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:13:50 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Australian C'wealth Games Daylight Saving Time extension Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060326053854.12406A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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Not a question, but one answer for anyone else caught by the change to the end of Daylight Saving Time in Australia a few hours ago, who hadn't updated their /usr/share/zoneinfo/ data since, um, Feb 21st or so. Yes, I was surprised to notice the clock move back an hour tonight, on my 4.5-R laptop and a (yep!) 2.2.6 system I look after, not having heard any usual reminders on TV/radio about DST changes. Some googling found: http://wpram.com/log/2006/03/04/commonwealth-games-daylight-saving/ which clear procedure I followed to the letter. All better now. Step 6 "FreeBSD users only: copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney to /etc/localtime" wasn't appropriate on 4.5 and presumably? later systems, /etc/localtime being a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney here anyway .. but it was the right advice for the old 2.2.6 beastie. cheers, Ian
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