Subject: Re: time zone change
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/15/2007 17:36:02
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

// George


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