January 11, 2007

How to update Timezone info in FreeBSD

  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