How to update Timezone info in FreeBSD

Posted by on January 11, 2007 Leave a comment (1) Go to comments

1. fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz
2. mkdir timezone && cd timezone && tar zxvf ../tzdata2007a.tar.gz
3. sudo tar cf /usr/share/zoneinfo.tar /usr/share/zoneinfo
4. sudo zic northamerica ( or whatever timezone you are intrested in ) 
5. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York  | grep 2007

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  1. bovine October 19, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Installing the FreeBSD port “/usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo” is a more convenient way of doing this.

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