I've taken up the local cable TV network (optus, telstra) practice of using AEST and AEDT instead of just EST in Australia, so I edited /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia to produce these timezones.
# New South Wales # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ... Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 10:00 AN AE%sT After installing the new tz file: su-2.05a# date Thu Mar 28 13:23:09 AEDT 2002 Fast forward to a date after daylight savings time ends: su-2.05a# date 200207070707 Sun Jul 7 07:07:00 AEST 2002 Back to normal: su-2.05a# date 200203281324 Thu Mar 28 13:24:00 AEDT 2002 I'm wondering why this isn't the default behaviour, is it because it'll break things or what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message