Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ken Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5 On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The use of ln -s will work just fine as written. I don't know why tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become out-of-sync if one updates the files

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: echo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime [ ... ] I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's been a while since they used softlinks for localtime The use of ln -s will work just fine as written. I

Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-14 Thread Ken Cochran
Hello -questions: This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of answer I need... I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message that came out on -announce in late February). One is 4.10-stable,

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ken Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello -questions: This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of answer I need... I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message that came out on

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
they used softlinks for localtime Ted - Original Message - From: Ken Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:01 AM Subject: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5 Hello -questions: This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind