DST

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Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm still having an issue with the new daylight saving-
> 
> I ran tzsetup entered the appropriate zone- but when I reboot the machine it
> still in the old time zone-
> 
> Is there a patch for freebsd 5.4

Dan Busarow posted an excellent step by step earlier. I used it with 
success on version 4.8 to 6.2 with no problems (Except the AMD64 port 
which has a zdump problem).

See below,

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> Grant,
> 
> Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject
> 
>  Determining daylight savings changes on BSD
> 
> It has the steps needed to update manually from source.
> 
> Here's the steps
> 
> If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the manual procedure.
> 
> 1. create a new directory and cd into it
>    e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo
> 
> 2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz
> 
> 3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
> 
> 4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from tzdata2007b.
>    you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines
> 
> #AX     +6006+01957     Europe/Mariehamn
> #GG     +4927-00232     Europe/Guernsey
> #IM     +5409-00428     Europe/Isle_of_Man
> #JE     +4912-00207     Europe/Jersey
> #ME     +4226+01916     Europe/Podgorica
> #RS     +4450+02030     Europe/Belgrade
> #TL     -0833+12535     Asia/Dili
> 
> 5. run this command
>    # zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \
>        africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \
>        factory northamerica southamerica systemv
> 
>    that's all one long line
>    the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and
>    fill it with the new zoneinfo files.  You can compare it to
>    /usr/share/zoneinfo
> 
> 6. install the new files by running
>    # cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo
>    # cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo
>    # tzsetup
> 
> 7. to verify that all went well run
>    # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>    your should get
> 
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> 
> 
> I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine.
> 
> 
> 
> Dan 


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