Re: Errata Patch for US Daylight Saving Time Change

There were two patches here that Mutt apparently concatenated.

* Jim Razmus <[email protected]> [070129 21:32]:
> Not sure where to post this one.  Any advice for future patches like
> these would be welcomed.
> 
> Attached patches address a recent question on misc@ regarding patching
> for the upcoming DST change in the United States.
> 
> Questions?  Concerns?  Feedback?
> 
> Jim
> Index: errata.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/www/errata.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.583
> diff -u -r1.583 errata.html
> --- errata.html	2007/01/16 06:28:44	1.583
> +++ errata.html	2007/01/30 02:19:42
> @@ -80,6 +80,15 @@
>  
>  <ul>
>  
> +<li><a name="northamerica"></a>
> +<font color="#009000"><strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: January 30, 2007</strong></font> &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
> +Daylight Saving Time in the United States will be incorrectly reported
> +beginning March 11, 2007.
> +<br>
> +<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.0/common/009_northamerica.patch">
> +A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
> +<p>
> +
>  <li><a name="icmp6"></a>
>  <font color="#009000"><strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: January 16, 2007</strong></font> &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
>  Under some circumstances, processing an ICMP6 echo request would cause

This is where the first patch ended and the second began.

> This file contains a patch for OpenBSD 4.0 errata #9.
> 
> For more information about this errata, please refer to
>   http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html#northamerica
> 
> This URL will change to http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata40.html#northamerica
> once OpenBSD 4.1 is released around May 1st, 2007.
> 
> Apply this patch by doing:
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	patch -p0 < 009_northamerica.patch
> 
> And then build and install:
> 	cd share/zoneinfo
> 	make realinstall
> 
> Index: share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica,v
> retrieving revision 1.21
> diff -u -r1.21 northamerica
> --- share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica	2006/02/18 19:47:24	1.21
> +++ share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica	2007/01/29 23:56:19
> @@ -125,18 +125,14 @@
>  Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00	W # War
>  Rule	US	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
>  Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
> -# The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the end month of DST from Oct to Nov
> -Rule	US	1967	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
> -#Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
> +Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
>  Rule	US	1967	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
>  Rule	US	1974	only	-	Jan	6	2:00	1:00	D
>  Rule	US	1975	only	-	Feb	23	2:00	1:00	D
>  Rule	US	1976	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
> -# The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the start month of DST from Apr to Mar
> -Rule	US	1987	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
> -#Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
> -#Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
> -#Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
> +Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
> +Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
> +Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
>  
>  # From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
>  # We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
> 

Sorry for the confusion.

jim