Hi
How do you find the timezone on Free/Open BSD? What we need for timezone
support is some way to obtain, from the operating system, the correct timezone
name (eg. GB-Eire or Europe/Rome)
There's no standard way to do that, so we already have system-specific code to
get the info via the most common methods, and there's no real reason we can't
add more for other OS's.
At least speaking for OpenBSD, /etc/localtime is a symlink to the timezone. For
me it looks like this:
$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 Feb 20 11:02 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
yes, that's pretty standard. /etc/localtime can be both a link or just a
raw copy.
do a "file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin"
and you should see the timezone data file version.
It appears I have both "old version" and "version 2" floating around. We
are able to use version 2 files but not the old ones on freebsd. But I
couldn't really understand inside the NSTimeZone code where we do read
the contents of the file.
*light bulb on* ! Perhaps we do not read the conent, but we assume it is
a symlink? I tried switching versions using a symlink and not by copying
again.... I need to test that too. Darn.
Riccardo
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