Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
> > > I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find
> > > out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes
> > > coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD
> > > 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command
> > > and the man page seems to suggest the same usage, but...
> > > 
> > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2007
> > > esmtp# zdump -v US/Eastern
> > > US/Eastern  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> > > US/Eastern  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> > > US/Eastern  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> > > US/Eastern  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> > 
> > That means you need to update your zoneinfo tables.  You can also use
> > the date command to see if you need updating:
> > 
> > date -r 1173679260
> > 
> 
> Yes, thanks, looks like I need to do that, how do I update my zoneinfo
> tables?

Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new tables as a side-effect of
the upgrade :)  If you don't want to upgrade, just install the
misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup.


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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com