Re: New -base release?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi
> > How do you find the timezone on Free/Open BSD?  What we need for timezone 
> > support is some way to obtain, from the operating system, the correct timezone 
> > name (eg. GB-Eire or Europe/Rome)
> > There's no standard way to do that, so we already have system-specific code to 
> > get the info via the most common methods, and there's no real reason we can't 
> > add more for other OS's.
> >      
> At least speaking for OpenBSD, /etc/localtime is a symlink to the timezone. For 
> me it looks like this:
> $ ls -l /etc/localtime
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  33 Feb 20 11:02 /etc/localtime ->  
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
>
>
>    
yes, that's pretty standard. /etc/localtime can be both a link or just a 
raw copy.

do a "file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin"

and you should see the timezone data file version.

It appears I have both "old version" and "version 2" floating around. We 
are able to use version 2 files but not the old ones on freebsd. But I 
couldn't really understand inside the NSTimeZone code where we do read 
the contents of the file.

*light bulb on* ! Perhaps we do not read the conent, but we assume it is 
a symlink? I tried switching versions using a symlink and not by copying 
again.... I need to test that too. Darn.

Riccardo