On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote:
> To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving > for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make > life harder. The dates are as follows: > > First on: 2:00am Dec 3 > 2007-2008: 2:00am Oct lastSun (ON) > 2007-2009: 2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF) > > If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something like (sorry if > field formatting doesn't come out properly): > > > # Western Australia > Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec > 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul > 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s > 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s > 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 2 > 8:00 AW WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s > 8:00 - WST > > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE > LETTER/S > Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - > Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - > Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - > > Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE branches for > these changes, or will most need to do them manually? > > The gazetted changes/references are at: > > http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/ I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell script to facilitate updating this system. ********************************************************************* #!/usr/local/bin/bash mkdir tz cd tz wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - ********************************************************************* Be sure to read the documentation obviously. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
