tzs for aussies

[Emil Mikulic]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:47:14PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 21:32:33 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> >i am told that the aussies have gone nuts and have moved
> >this year's change from summer time to normal one week.
> ...
> >so, are there /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/ files for this
> >bit of silliness?
> 
> They were committed in zoneinfo/australasia 1.26 last August.  It was
> MFC'd to 5.x immediately and to 6.x in December.

Yeah, this came up at work weeks ago and I did zdump and it gave me the
correct output[1] and I thought "hey, cool, FreeBSD is totally on the
ball with this DST stuff" and put it out of my mind.

Of course, I forgot to update /etc/localtime, which was a very old copy
of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne, so my workstation was
off by an hour on Monday morning.  =/



[1] zdump -v Australia/Melbourne | grep 2006 | head -2
You want to see:

Australia/Melbourne  Sat Apr  1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/Melbourne  Sat Apr  1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000

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