Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Cochran <kwc@theworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 Message-ID: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Hello -questions:
This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of
answer I need...
I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update
to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message
that came out on -announce in late February). One is
4.10-stable, last updated late November 2004 & the other is
5.4-release. Cvsup brings /usr/src in order but I can't update
ports (yet) to get misc/zoneinfo and it doesn't look like I can
just "transfer" the /usr/share/zoneinfo bits over from /usr/src
without a {build,install}world (also impractical at this time).
Best I can tell from the message that came from -announce sometime
back, the same fix(es) would apply to both the 4 & 5 branches.
Is there a "proper" way to fix the timezone on these machines
"manually" pending the "real" change that will happen in the
system according to the previous rules/schedule? (e.g. Fix it
temporarily/manually but not clobber the original rules.)
Or is there some way to install the new cvsup'ed zoneinfo bits
into an "old" system so I can run tzsetup and have everything
fixed "correctly?" I'm in US Central timezone and I've seen it
reported as CST6CDT (I guess that's in SysV).
FAQ/doc/book pointers/references are welcome of course - I'm
still digging around in both the Handbook & Complete FreeBSD
and wherever else I can find...
Many thanks,
-kc
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