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| author | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-05-04 10:52:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-05-04 10:52:17 +0000 |
| commit | ba3833a8c41b0455d24e98445f1f9e073383f7d2 (patch) | |
| tree | f4bbad4562d1f09c7e034b64d002c43ed3d27bf2 /UPDATING | |
| parent | d81c2dd921d956757a66eda9c481cd836ea7f1c2 (diff) | |
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Point out that the tzdata 2018e update brings in negative DST for certain time
zones. This does not affect the vast majority of users who do not care about
(or even know about) the tm_isdst flag but may be slightly surprising to those
with a more specialised interest in time zone arcana.
MFC after: 3 days
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=333248
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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 3fc3bb1ed92a0..3eeef66dcac73 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** +20180504: + The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more + correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as + Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and + Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only + time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. + 20180502: The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel |