From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 02:23:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5240A106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsimmons0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A3E8FC08 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so4259892ywf.13 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:23:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Z2bwnY5lXN3AujEjmb3wx6TYeW6OQkje5Ocby0JFrKw=; b=r8dBz6FTpfbkpohfVBpx4HnKEw+zdcGNLA9uicyEw5tWJ2Mx1sxCx1hjp80DB+Or6h bHU9l1+TY6ZeLJbc4tHxU0jbmPtqLXWoCL0SAwdB25s6SeGqqw4MB6e9mdYbpncSdM+I 6VQG3/6unoijNEU3kwJrovul841Gjebos6hxA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=FRG467efzxxjty0pxMlyqIJ/2e8mWLb2RVyX4tiCMUx82Q9sHUmnkNQnSxEgfUqzir aQrz0mHkXlbVyWC5LY+gJ9reL/FNTb8LwEx81mX9FcsfS+lVaDbNwNLNM8in9RRoYq1W HL9+mbh1Jc0BhhFZ+4MCi3DNZNgKhAqNuTAGw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.205.36 with SMTP id h36mr7143881anq.74.1308102812795; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.11.20 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:53:32 -0400 Message-ID: From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: posixrules X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:23:22 -0000 I am a bit confused about the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules Looking through the docs, it seems that according to tzset(3) the file is "rules for POSIX-style TZ's" but after examining the file, it is identical to the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York and the date stamp on the file is back in Feb (when 8.2-RELEASE was built), so it was not created when I ran tzsetup and selected New_York as my timezone. Can someone explain why these two files are the same?