as many of you probably already know, significant changes to daylight
saving time are coming into effect this year, affecting the usa and
other regions as well. in the usa, 2007 daylight saving time is set to
begin on 11 march:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html
openbsd 4.0 seems not to have the new rules in place:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a
OpenBSD hazel.ma.p3t3.net 4.0 GENERIC#1107 i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30 Nov 1 23:10 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 EST
isdst=0
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 EDT
isdst=1
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT
isdst=1
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST
isdst=0
since openbsd 4.1 won't be released until after the usa change occurs,
does openbsd have an "official" position on how the new daylight saving
time rules are to be handled for 4.0 and 3.9? (i've googled a bit and
searched misc@, but all i found was the same question asked, but not
answered:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116862762007534&w=2)
i know i can always build my own zoneinfo files (the official source is
http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm, for those who may not know), but
before i do that, i just thought i'd ask if there was an officially
sanctioned solution to this issue.
thanks,
pete gilman
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