Update TZ data

[Alberto Mijares]

Thank you Matthew. I wasn't aware, it's a very recent update.

Best regards,


Alberto Mijares



On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 30/12/2016 16:34, Alberto Mijares wrote:
>> I'd like to know how to patch and submit the TZ database in base.
>> America/Caracas is -4:00 since May 01 2016.
>
> Is that not covered by the recent Errata Notice updating the timezone data?
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-16:20.tzdata.asc
>
> Looks like there's a 4 hour difference from UTC to me:
>
> ```
> % env TZ=America/Caracas date
> Fri Dec 30 12:56:20 VET 2016
> % env TZ=UTC date
> Fri Dec 30 16:56:37 UTC 2016
> ```
>
> If you're using a release version, using freebsd-update(8) to get the
> latest patchlevel should suffice.
>
> Otherwise, if you're building base from source, simply update to a
> version more recent than about 6th December.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
>
>