Re: time zone change
"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.help |
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George Georgalis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:41:15PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:39:48PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote: > >> > >> Meanwhile, back at my apartment, it occurs to me that maybe my > >zoneinfo > directory needs updating, courtesy of the US congress? > >What's the best > way to go about that? > > > >I suspect the last snapshots from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily > >for each active branch have up-to-date zoneinfo. > > this came up on another list recently, someone reported a bunch of > release branches where correct. I think it was all of them, but > you can check if these dates are the same on your host > > zdump -v US/Eastern | grep '2007' > US/Eastern Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST > isdst=0 US/Eastern Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 > 2007 EDT isdst=1 US/Eastern Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 > 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 US/Eastern Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun > Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 Cool. Thank you both. I have 3.1 installed on one machine and 2.0, still, on my main workstation. According to zdump, the 3.1 files are fine (my output matches the above). So I copied those files over to the 2.0 machine and everything looks good. --jkl