Something I found out at work earlier this week is that Java uses  
their out timezone database, so that would need to be patched as well.

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/

Wanted to pass that on incase anyone relies on java for a time  
sensitive application.

On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Peter GILMAN wrote:
>
> as many of you probably already know, significant changes to daylight
> saving time are coming into effect this year, affecting the usa and
> other regions as well.  in the usa, 2007 daylight saving time is  
> set to
> begin on 11 march:
>
>   http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html
>
>
> openbsd 4.0 seems not to have the new rules in place:
>
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a
>   OpenBSD hazel.ma.p3t3.net 4.0 GENERIC#1107 i386
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /etc/localtime
>   lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  30 Nov  1 23:10 /etc/localtime -> /usr/ 
> share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>   /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1  
> 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0
>   /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1  
> 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1
>   /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28  
> 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1
>   /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28  
> 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0
>
>
> since openbsd 4.1 won't be released until after the usa change occurs,
> does openbsd have an "official" position on how the new daylight  
> saving
> time rules are to be handled for 4.0 and 3.9?  (i've googled a bit and
> searched misc@, but all i found was the same question asked, but not
> answered:
>
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116862762007534&w=2)
>
>
> i know i can always build my own zoneinfo files (the official  
> source is
> http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm, for those who may not know),  
> but
> before i do that, i just thought i'd ask if there was an officially
> sanctioned solution to this issue.
>
> thanks,
>
>
> pete gilman
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