From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 18:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail021.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail021.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0582837B400 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar.c3p0.2y.net (c16525.rivrw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.28.36.144]) by mail021.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g2S2TIi18900 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:29:19 +1100 Subject: Timezone changes From: David Turnbull Reply-To: dsturnbull@optushome.com.au To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 28 Mar 2002 14:29:18 +1200 Message-Id: <1017282559.51984.35.camel@darkstar.c3p0.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've taken up the local cable TV network (optus, telstra) practice of using AEST and AEDT instead of just EST in Australia, so I edited /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia to produce these timezones. # New South Wales # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ... Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 10:00 AN AE%sT After installing the new tz file: su-2.05a# date Thu Mar 28 13:23:09 AEDT 2002 Fast forward to a date after daylight savings time ends: su-2.05a# date 200207070707 Sun Jul 7 07:07:00 AEST 2002 Back to normal: su-2.05a# date 200203281324 Thu Mar 28 13:24:00 AEDT 2002 I'm wondering why this isn't the default behaviour, is it because it'll break things or what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message