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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:05:42
Message-Id: 0t0t94-msi.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What's with the timezone data... by Daevid Vincent
1 In <news:BRAKAOj2XnhzhPHqdnh000001bb@××××××××××××××××××××.com>,
2 "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > * sys-libs/timezone-data
5 > Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a
6 > Homepage: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
7 > Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and
8 > utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump)
9 >
10 > How come the 2007 is still masked.
11
12 I don't know.
13
14 > The new DST for the USA and Australia is creeping up in a few
15 > weeks. March 11th.
16 >
17 > The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no
18 > idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it...
19
20 Looking inside tzdata2006p.tar.gz at the file for North America, the
21 comments indicate that the new U.S rules were added to the data in
22 2005, so there shouldn't be any problem. After untarring,
23
24 $ grep US.*2007 northamerica
25 Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
26 Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
27
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