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From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] dst shift is shifty
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:38:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <952842d5b40fc1e79b58c96d3f866c53@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d83f8ce5bcc89bfc6d75790defcfe4cb@gandalf.orthanc.ca>

On Fri Mar 25 18:54:59 EDT 2011, lyndon at orthanc.ca wrote:
> > did you not copy the new US_Pacific to /adm/timezone/local?
> 
> Being in Canada_Pacific, no.  I see an update is required.

hmmm.  iirc, i made the us change when the law in canada was
in doubt.  sorry for falling down on the job.

as a hack, if you copy US_Pacific, except for the dates from 1973-1974,
that should be the right temporary fix

; diff -c /n/sourcesdump/2006/0401/plan9/adm/timezone/US_Pacific US_Pacific
/n/sourcesdump/2006/0401/plan9/adm/timezone/US_Pacific:1,6 - Canada_Pacific:1,6
  PST -28800 PDT -25200
     9943200   25664400   41392800   57718800   73447200   89168400
-  104896800  120618000  126669600  152067600  162352800  183517200
+  104896800  120618000  136346400  152067600  167796000  183517200

i'll submit a patch.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-26  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25 21:46 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 22:08 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 22:53   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-26  3:38     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-26 15:13     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-27 20:48       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-27 21:13         ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-27 21:20           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-27 22:31             ` Steve Simon

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