Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:51:09 -0800 From: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Subject: How does the time zone info get updated? Message-ID: <20210105075109.A412C40605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>
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It gets distributed with the base packages, but I haven't figured out how to keep it up to date. The info is distributed via IANA. https://www.iana.org/time-zones It gets updated several times a year. There were 6 during 2020. When is unpredictable, often shortly after some government passes a law to change something with short notice. I'd expect there to be some mechanism to track the updates but I haven't found it. The tz database includes the leap-seconds.list file. That gets updated every 6 months. I'd like to get whatever FreeBSD does for time zones to include that file so ntpd can use it without having to be concerned with keeping it up to date. That only works if the zone info is kept up to date. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.
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