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How to update the TZ database information.

Welcome! You've probably heard that some aspect of time has changed and
you're wondering what to do. The first thing to do is to grab the latest
version of the time database which can currently be found at:

http://www.iana.org/time-zones

You'll need the data tarball. Most data files are used in the gate
directly; however, a few have slightly different names. The following
commands assume that you're inside of the directory you extracted the
time zone files.

$ cp africa antarctica asia australasia backward etcetera europe \
  northamerica pacificnew southamerica systemv $CODEMGR_WS/usr/src/data/zoneinfo

Next you need to copy the country tab and the zone tab files. These have
different names in our source tree.

$ cp iso3166.tab $CODEMGR_WS/usr/src/data/zoneinfo/country.tab
$ cp zone.tab $CODEMGR_WS/usr/src/data/zoneinfo/zone.tab.txt

Now, you need to manually fix up the zone_sun.tab. zone_sun.tab has
additional different zone names that the original does not. As things
are changed and removed, or coordinates updated, the same should be done
in zone_sun.tab. The simplest way known to deal with it today is
something like the following:

$ cd $CODEMGR_WS/usr/src/data/zoneinfo
$ vimdiff zone.tab.txt zone_sun.tab

And as you see things that show up as egregiously different, do a 'git
diff zone.tab.txt' and see what changed and fix zone_sun.tab
appropriately. Usually this means deleting removed entries and adding
new ones.

After that's done, you'll need to go through the more agonizing process of
packaging. To do this, you'll want to look through the differences that have
occurred in zone.tab.txt and backward. The contents of backward describe
hardlinks that need to exist in packaging. Specifically, if you have a line in
the form of:

LINK	Beleriand	Gondolin

That instructs that Gondolin should be hardlinked to Beleriand. In ips parlance
that'd be:

hardlink path=usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Beleriand target=./Gondolin

The differences in zone.tab.txt describe the additions and removals of various
file entries. If you're not friends with protocmp yet, this should help you out.
Once both of those are done, you'll need to update the version of the package
itself in the manifest. IANA releases these as <year><letter>, eg. 2013i.
Instead, you need to encode that letter to its spot in the alphabet. So 2013i
would become 2013.9.

Once packaging is all done, then you should be all set.