Subject: Re: time zone change
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/15/2007 22:59:05
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