Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

[Murray Taylor]

Have a current ports tree
cd /usr/ports/misc/zonefile
make install

this gets the correct (and current) timezone file
"tzdata2006p.tar.gz"
and does all the right stuff for you.
Make sure that you follow the last instruction from the 
build as you have to manually run tzsetup
at the end.

mjt

Murray Taylor

Special Projects Engineer
Bytecraft Systems

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Gerard Seibert
> Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 10:59 PM
> To: User Questions
> Subject: Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes
> 
> On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> 
> > To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting 
> daylight saving 
> > for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, 
> just to make 
> > life harder. The dates are as follows:
> > 
> > First on:	2:00am Dec 3
> > 2007-2008:	2:00am Oct lastSun (ON)
> > 2007-2009:	2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF)
> > 
> > If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something 
> like (sorry if 
> > field formatting doesn't come out properly):
> > 
> > 
> > # Western Australia
> > Zone Australia/Perth     7:43:24 -      LMT     1895 Dec
> >                           8:00   Aus     WST     1943 Jul
> >                           8:00   -       WST     1974 Oct 
> lastSun 2:00s
> >                           8:00   1:00    WST     1975 Mar 
> Sun>=1 2:00s
> >                           8:00   -       WST     1983 Oct 
> lastSun 2:00s
> >                           8:00   1:00    WST     1984 Mar 
> Sun>=1 2:00s
> >                           8:00   -       WST     1991 Nov 17 2:00s
> >                           8:00   1:00    WST     1992 Mar 
> Sun>=1 2:00s
> >                           8:00   -       WST     2006 Dec 2
> >                           8:00   AW      WST     2009 Mar 
> lastSun 2:00s
> >                           8:00   -       WST
> > 
> > # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT  
>     SAVE 
> > LETTER/S
> > Rule    AW      2006    only    -       Dec     3       
> 2:00s   1:00    -
> > Rule    AW      2007    2008    -       Oct     lastSun 
> 2:00s   1:00    -
> > Rule    AW      2007    2009    -       Mar     lastSun 
> 2:00s   0       -
> > 
> > Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE 
> branches for 
> > these changes, or will most need to do them manually?
> > 
> > The gazetted changes/references are at:
> > 
> > http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/
> 
> I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell
> script to facilitate updating this system.
> 
> *********************************************************************
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> 
>         mkdir tz
>         cd tz
>         wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
>         gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
>         gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
> *********************************************************************
> Be sure to read the documentation obviously.
> 
> -- 
> Gerard
> 
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