On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:39:48PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I got mail at work today informing me IT would be rebooting my Windows
> workstation to allow its timezone update to take effect.  Apararently some
> OSes tie that kind of information to the account.  Don't ask me; I just
> work there.  
> 
> Meanwhile, back at my apartment, it occurs to me that maybe my zoneinfo
> directory needs updating, courtesy of the US congress?  What's the best
> way to go about that?  

I suspect the last snapshots from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily
for each active branch have up-to-date zoneinfo.

> 
> Also, I haven't found out when the zoneinfo database is consulted.  Is it
> read into memory at boot time, or are changes to the file effective
> immediately?  

It's read by each process when it's started. So you may need to restart
long-running processes.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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