Subject: Re: US daylight savings changes
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/12/2007 13:03:58
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:45:46PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
>Robert Elz said:
>
>>In source form (ready for zic to compile to binary)
>>
>>	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz
>>
>>(or  ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz and probably
>>numerous other places).
>>
>>That's the latest, earlier versions back to sometime during 2006
>>also contain the US changes - I expect (guess, without checking)
>>the current NetBSD sources have the US changes already incorporated.
>>
>>If you need the code as well, its at the same locations, but
>>in
>>	tzcode2007a.tar.gz
>
>I looked on my systems. It seems that 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 all have the US changes
>in the data files.

You can verify with this command, on most other systems.

# 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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