Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:35:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD Message-ID: <20070202223500.GI44511@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1170455418.16189.42.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1170430862.16189.8.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20070202163637.GC44511@dan.emsphone.com> <1170455418.16189.42.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > > > I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find > > > out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes > > > coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD > > > 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command > > > and the man page seems to suggest the same usage, but... > > > > > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2007 > > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern > > > US/Eastern Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > US/Eastern Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 > > > > That means you need to update your zoneinfo tables. You can also use > > the date command to see if you need updating: > > > > date -r 1173679260 > > > > Yes, thanks, looks like I need to do that, how do I update my zoneinfo > tables? 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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