Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:36:37 -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: <20070202163637.GC44511@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1170430862.16189.8.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1170430862.16189.8.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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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 If that prints "Mon Mar 12 02:01:00 EST 2007" you know you need to update. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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