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From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com>
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Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote:
> This came down from above?!
> 
> Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month  
> by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March)  
> and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November).
> 
> 
> What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7 and 6.1 systems to be
> daylight savings 2007 ready?
> 
> Currently: 4.11-RELEASE-p25
> 
> Currently: 6.1-RELEASE-p10
> 
> hal

You can grab the latest zoneinfo file from http://www.nih.gov/ and
recompile it with /usr/sbin/zic.

Yeah, you could use the ports tree, but I prefer using methods that
are a little more portable across operating systems.  I've got like
two dozen different OS releases of various flavors to update with the 
new timezone information. 

-Damian