Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington <drumslayer2@yahoo.com> To: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD Message-ID: <185909.4526.qm@web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0702091557y5b02f1ebq51c4b9fc6c964b4@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/2/07, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > > On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson > wrote: > > > Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new > tables as a side-effect of > > > the upgrade :) If you don't want to upgrade, > just install the > > > misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup. > > > > The last bit (rerunning tzsetup(8)) is good advice > for anyone who hasn't run > > it in a while. Upgrading from earlier versions of > FreeBSD will install the > > new tzdata files but it will not touch > /etc/localtime. > > > > That's great. Um, how can I run tzsetup > non-interactively? It's going > to be a pain updating all my systems if I have to > walk through the > menu on every one; and the man page didn't help at > all. > It's not what I would call, non interactive, or even elegant, but below is what I have done on some systems. On others, I just installed a copy of the newly created /etc/localtime file. Maybe it will be useful to you. ---- cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz tar -zxvf tzdata2007a.tar.gz make make install cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime chmod 444 /etc/localtime -------- Nicole -- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them -Albert Einstein
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