Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:24:24 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Subject: Re: How does the time zone info get updated? Message-ID: <4e6721bc-e593-76b6-90f8-03d96486dc28@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20210105075109.A412C40605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> References: <20210105075109.A412C40605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --g8vxm87iYqCYVoC0Smm1D7NhV1jVBGPTu Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="ykIOctd0HLewIaPLaUFocxHgbszkNaivB"; protected-headers="v1" From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Message-ID: <4e6721bc-e593-76b6-90f8-03d96486dc28@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does the time zone info get updated? References: <20210105075109.A412C40605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> In-Reply-To: <20210105075109.A412C40605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> --ykIOctd0HLewIaPLaUFocxHgbszkNaivB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 05.01.21 um 08:51 schrieb Hal Murray:> It gets distributed with the=20 base packages, but I haven't figured out how to > keep it up to date. >=20 > The info is distributed via IANA. > https://www.iana.org/time-zones >=20 > It gets updated several times a year. There were 6 during 2020. When = is > unpredictable, often shortly after some government passes a law to chan= ge > something with short notice. >=20 > I'd expect there to be some mechanism to track the updates but I haven'= t found > it. >=20 > 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 incl= ude > that file so ntpd can use it without having to be concerned with keepin= g it up > to date. That only works if the zone info is kept up to date. We have recently moved the calendar files out of -CURRENT and into a=20 port, and I could imagine providing the timezone files in the same way (without removal from base, but from there only used as a fall-back if the port supplied files are not available). That way -STABLE users could update the definitions with base, but if you strictly follow a release, you could install the port and decouple timezone file updates from base updates ... I'd be willing to support this change and maintain the data files, but I can imagine that the current maintainer of those files in base might want to do it himself. --ykIOctd0HLewIaPLaUFocxHgbszkNaivB-- --g8vxm87iYqCYVoC0Smm1D7NhV1jVBGPTu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="OpenPGP_signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_signature" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wsB5BAABCAAjFiEEo3HqZZwL7MgrcVMTR+u171r99UQFAl/0TGgFAwAAAAAACgkQR+u171r99USs VAf8Cj3U65CHn+fW4S0sevyutblrOxcugZkDr/sVuJhGWAFldpSqVwC5fLKNwcf/DjLX1GeezszA zYspd7ze1g/nGjlpJqgItgkM52bIvH/M6Ozg3q3xcdrvkJrmR9DfGGxEVuhC5karK2kC/p8MifhG mSWRN18E01+FYmuY/NyEhKS5uMh6/76K1gebbTeKa4QT7K7kQ2JuPFNns/o4k3XecdezaTmXtcBu APFXC6mvjM3CYz0zkyOPnqrEiND8oXUCk7dT3S/uzrTz4OxA09BXc9dzE8hCp0Qc5u008P0O5o+V VK7F4XsTZ7Bx5/gJ54Yfe7Md7C29axn/EAkmVhW8+g== =Pep8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --g8vxm87iYqCYVoC0Smm1D7NhV1jVBGPTu--
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