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| author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-05-03 16:02:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-05-03 16:02:43 +0000 |
| commit | 2fff3d6737e272376c21c25fa725dbcbdba676ec (patch) | |
| tree | 15b9f288c74d722662fdd0f412520e947ba91361 /en | |
| parent | d7465a277103823ac13f0fb7456a619e5a8c0437 (diff) | |
| download | doc-2fff3d6737e272376c21c25fa725dbcbdba676ec.tar.gz doc-2fff3d6737e272376c21c25fa725dbcbdba676ec.zip | |
re-add dst_info.sgml which may have some historical value
Requested by: hrs, imp
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/www/; revision=38785
Diffstat (limited to 'en')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/releng/Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/releng/dst_info.sgml | 53 |
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/releng/Makefile b/en/releng/Makefile index 5e7fad657b..738fbefba3 100644 --- a/en/releng/Makefile +++ b/en/releng/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/releng/Makefile,v 1.3 2007/02/26 22:35:28 kensmith Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/releng/Makefile,v 1.4 2012/04/29 21:35:32 simon Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ .include "../Makefile.inc" .endif -DOCS?= index.sgml charter.sgml +DOCS?= index.sgml charter.sgml dst_info.sgml .include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" diff --git a/en/releng/dst_info.sgml b/en/releng/dst_info.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..908f88d806 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/releng/dst_info.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [ +<!ENTITY base CDATA ".."> +<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releng/dst_info.sgml,v 1.1 2007/02/26 22:34:36 kensmith Exp $"> +<!ENTITY title "Daylight Savings Time Changes for 2007"> +<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE"> +]> + +<html> +&header; + +<p>This is a summary of the information about the change in Daylight +Savings Time rules and how the change affects FreeBSD releases.</p> + +<p>In 2005 several countries, including the United States of America +and Canada, passed legislation changing when Daylight Savings Time +begins and ends. That change takes effect in 2007. For the time +zones affected by the change Daylight Savings Time will begin on +March 11th (instead of April 1st) and end on November 4th (instead +of October 28th).</p> + +<p>FreeBSD uses <tt>/etc/localtime</tt> to control the conversion of +the system's internal representation of time (based on UTC) to the +format appropriate for the local time zone. That file gets +copied from one of the files in <tt>/usr/share/zoneinfo</tt> by the +tzsetup(8) command, usually as part of the initial installation +procedure. The change in Daylight Savings Time rules affects the +files in <tt>/usr/share/zoneinfo</tt> for the time zones affected by +the legislation passed in 2005.</p> + +<p>Of the release branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Team +as of February 2007, FreeBSD-6.2 and FreeBSD-5.5 have up to date +zoneinfo files. FreeBSD-6.1 has correct zoneinfo files for +time zones in the United States of America but out of date +zoneinfo files for some of the other countries affected (for +example Canada). An Errata Notice will be released shortly +to update the zoneinfo files in FreeBSD-6.1.</p> + +<p>For the development branches HEAD, RELENG_6, RELENG_5, and +RELENG_4 all have the correct zoneinfo files in them.</p> + +<p>NOTE: <tt>/etc/localtime</tt> currently does not get updated when +the cvsup/buildworld/etc system update procedures are used. If a machine +was installed using one of the releases not listed above it will +probably have an outdated <tt>/etc/localtime</tt> file. That file can +be updated by running tzsetup(8).</p> + +<p>For older systems no longer under support the misc/zoneinfo +port can be installed to update the <tt>/usr/share/zoneinfo</tt> files, +followed by running tzsetup(8) to update <tt>/etc/localtime</tt>.</p> + +&footer; +</body> +</html> |