Just upgraded 4.7 to 4.8 stable. Hoped that timezone info will be up to date, but it still isn't though files in /usr/share/zoneinfo show new dates. For instance daylight saving time settings are outdated in Europe/Vilnius file. I'll try to recompile those files from sources got fom ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ but it would be nice to have updated info for the next release of freebsd or even next update to 4.8stable .. The question is: where should i e-mail this info? thanks _Zzz_
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:27:26AM +0300, _Zzz_ wrote:> Just upgraded 4.7 to 4.8 stable. > Hoped that timezone info will be up to date, but it still isn't though files > in /usr/share/zoneinfo show new dates. > For instance daylight saving time settings are outdated in Europe/Vilnius > file. > > I'll try to recompile those files from sources got fom > ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ but it would be nice to have updated info for > the next release of freebsd or even next update to 4.8stable .. > The question is: where should i e-mail this info?What a bizarre place to find timezone info. I can't see why the National Institutes of Health should have an interest in such a thing. Anyhow, the best way to proceed is to submit a PR using send-pr(1) and attaching diffs against the zoneinfo sources in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030415/cbbfc234/attachment.bin
In article <20030415105637.GC43442@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> you write:>What a bizarre place to find timezone info. I can't see why the >National Institutes of Health should have an interest in such a thing.What business is it of yours? As it turns out, NIH is in fact the source of the canonical timezone database.>Anyhow, the best way to proceed is to submit a PR using send-pr(1) and >attaching diffs against the zoneinfo sources in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo.At which point I would close the PR and ask the submitter to contact the appropriate authorities (tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov). In this particular case, I suspect that the change is already reflected in the database, but I haven't had time since the last update to import it into FreeBSD. I will try to remember to do so some time this week. -GAWollman