On Mar 27, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/27/2011 08:38, David Wolfskill wrote: >> So it seems to me that requirements would be: >> * The content of /etc/localtime must provide the appropriate >> "zoneinfo" information, even when/usr/share/zoneinfo/* has been >> modified (or shortly thereafter, in concert with "make installworld"). > > This is more along the lines of something that would be easy to work with in > mergemaster. If I can tell what file in /usr/share/zoneinfo to compare > /etc/localtime to (ideally with fully path), I'm happy to provide a mechanism > in mergemaster to make sure it stays up to date.
The best fix is to first add the ability for date(1) to print out the current timezone name. (E.g., "America/Los_Angeles") Then it's trivial for mergemaster to update /etc/localtime; just ask date(1) for the timezone name and copy the correct one over /etc/localtime. Unfortunately, I think it's currently impossible for date(1) to do this because the zoneinfo files don't store that information. This is the real reason Solaris uses a symlink; the value of the symlink gives you the timezone name. FWIW, mergemaster is not the only program that would benefit from a canonical way to obtain the name of the current timezone. Cheers, Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
