From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 6:27: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeppo.it.uu.se (zeppo.it.uu.se [130.238.15.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C145037B593 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 06:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by zeppo.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23727; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:25:16 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:25:16 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Dayligh Saving Time in Europe Message-ID: <20000403152515.A22150@student.csd.uu.se> References: <38ec6625.2846652@relay.skynet.be> <20000403125003.A10889@student.csd.uu.se> <38e97d9a.8852097@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38e97d9a.8852097@relay.skynet.be>; from bart.lateur@skynet.be on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:20:03AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:20:03AM +0000, Bart Lateur wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:50:04 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >You actually *do* want CEST. "S" stands for Summer, not Standard. > >The timezones for Belgium are the same as here in Sweden. > >CET (Central European Time) during the winter and CEST (Central European > >Summer Time) during summer. > > Oh. Damned. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll have to check if gmtime > returns the correct answer (2 hours difference?). > > So how can I choose plain "CET"? Because every year again, there are > political debates about abandoning this "barbaric" Daylight Saving Time > thing altogether. If this happens, is FreeBSD 3.4 ready for it? > Sure. You see, the information on when Daylight Saving Time sets in is actually kept in a database in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. So FreeBSD will automatically change between Daylight Saving Time and normal time at the appropriate time. So once you have used sysinstall to set the right timezone you don't have to worry about it any more. If DST is abandoned then an updated database should find its way into the FreeBSD sources pretty soon. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message