From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 15:17:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9257416A40F for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:17:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com (bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA6743C9D for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:16:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal (svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal [10.0.0.3]) by bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB3FHABv068883 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 02:17:11 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from svmailmel.bytecraft.internal (Not Verified[10.0.0.24]) by svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal with MailMarshal (v6, 1, 4, 441) id ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:17:10 +1100 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 02:17:08 +1100 Message-ID: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1266C72@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes Thread-Index: AccVQGamGRr+nFufScSHEMFFRXjEvwBrP6AA From: "Murray Taylor" To: "User Questions" Subject: RE: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:17:15 -0000 Have a current ports tree cd /usr/ports/misc/zonefile make install this gets the correct (and current) timezone file "tzdata2006p.tar.gz" and does all the right stuff for you. Make sure that you follow the last instruction from the=20 build as you have to manually run tzsetup at the end. mjt Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au=20 -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of=20 > Gerard Seibert > Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 10:59 PM > To: User Questions > Subject: Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes >=20 > On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote: >=20 >=20 > > To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting=20 > daylight saving=20 > > for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform,=20 > just to make=20 > > life harder. The dates are as follows: > >=20 > > First on: 2:00am Dec 3 > > 2007-2008: 2:00am Oct lastSun (ON) > > 2007-2009: 2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF) > >=20 > > If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something=20 > like (sorry if=20 > > field formatting doesn't come out properly): > >=20 > >=20 > > # Western Australia > > Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec > > 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul > > 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct=20 > lastSun 2:00s > > 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar=20 > Sun>=3D1 2:00s > > 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct=20 > lastSun 2:00s > > 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar=20 > Sun>=3D1 2:00s > > 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s > > 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar=20 > Sun>=3D1 2:00s > > 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 2 > > 8:00 AW WST 2009 Mar=20 > lastSun 2:00s > > 8:00 - WST > >=20 > > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT =20 > SAVE=20 > > LETTER/S > > Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 =20 > 2:00s 1:00 - > > Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun=20 > 2:00s 1:00 - > > Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun=20 > 2:00s 0 - > >=20 > > Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE=20 > branches for=20 > > these changes, or will most need to do them manually? > >=20 > > The gazetted changes/references are at: > >=20 > > http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/ >=20 > I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell > script to facilitate updating this system. >=20 > ********************************************************************* > #!/usr/local/bin/bash >=20 > mkdir tz > cd tz > wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' > gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - > gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - > ********************************************************************* > Be sure to read the documentation obviously. >=20 > --=20 > Gerard >=20 > Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. 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