new DST rules for openbsd?

Peter GILMAN pgilman at p3t3.net
Thu Jan 25 23:41:13 PST 2007




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:

  [root at hazel ~]# uname -a
  OpenBSD hazel.ma.p3t3.net 4.0 GENERIC#1107 i386
  [root at hazel ~]# ls -l /etc/localtime
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  30 Nov  1 23:10 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
  [root at hazel ~]# 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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