Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:38:54 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: 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: <20070205143854.dc4309f1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200702022206.43429.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <1170430862.16189.8.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <1170455418.16189.42.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20070202223500.GI44511@dan.emsphone.com> <200702022206.43429.lists@jnielsen.net>
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In response to John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>: > On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: [snip] > > 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. Is there a good reason why FreeBSD copies the file instead of making a symlink? Doesn't seem like the best idea to me. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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