date/time trouble - PST came too early

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml at t-b-o-h.net>
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:40:16 -0500 (EST)
> 
> > > From: Vivek Khera <khera at kcilink.com>
> > > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:09:35 -0500
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Chris H. wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ahh... I'm guessing that you missed the following post in this  
> > > > thread titled
> > > > "date/time trouble - PST came too early [fixed]" posted 11-02.
> > > >
> > > > LI Xin offered the following solution, which solved my dilemma:
> > > 
> > > No, I saw that... but like I said, most of us did this last year when  
> > > the new DST rules went into effect.  Did you not notice it last year?
> > 
> > OK. This is twice you've said it and you are wrong. This is the FIRST
> > year of the new US DST dates. Last year DST ended on October as it has
> > for many years.
> > 
> > From H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS:
> > "Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the date
> > of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later."
> >
> 	I think what he meant to say is that we all fixed it last year,
> even though it didn't go into effect until THIS year. I updated my 
> systems as soon as the "zoneinfo" port was updated.

Actually, it was imported into RELENG_6 in Dec. 2005, but this is only
relevant to those who have upgraded their systems since the change and
I'm sure many did not. While the update is easy now, a few folks were
still caught by surprise.

In any case, since it was not in effect last year, it would be very
unlikely that most FreeBSD users would have noticed it then.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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