it to all kernel configs that contain "options MODULAR". This
option turns on module autoloading by default (which is the current
default). This allows people who don't want module autoloading on
by default to disable it by simply removing/commentting this line.
the moment, this can only load very simple modules due to missing
symbols. It is being add at this time to make pullups to the
netbsd-7 branch easier. It is not enabled by default in any kernels.
The timezone files are still installed in ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/zoneinfo/**,
and they are identical before and after this change.
This is almost the last step in moving NetBSD's tzdata sources from
share/zoneinfo to external/public/tz/dist, to ease future maintenance.
All that remains is to delete src/share/zoneinfo, but that will be
delayed for a while.
The following new time zones are added:
Asia/Chita Asia/Srednekolymsk
The following new file is installed:
zone1970.tab
The following existing file is now installed, whereas we previously
did not install it:
leapseconds
Summary of changes in tzdata2014f (2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700):
* Russia will subtract an hour from most of its time zones on 2014-10-26
at 02:00 local time. There are some exception.
* The following new zones are added to deal with changes in Russia:
Asia/Chita and Asia/Srednekolymsk.
* Australian eastern time zone abbreviations are now AEST/AEDT not EST,
and similarly for the other Australian zones.
* Asia/Novokuznetsk shifts from NOVT to KRAT (remaining on UTC+7)
effective 2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time.
* The time zone abbreviation for Xinjiang Time (observed in Ürümqi)
has been changed from URUT to XJT.
* Prefer MSK/MSD for Moscow time in Russia, even in other cities.
* Change time zone abbreviations in (western) Samoa to use "ST" and
"DT" suffixes, as this is more likely to match common practice.
* America/Metlakatla now uses PST, not MeST, to abbreviate its time zone.
* Time zone abbreviations have been updated for Japan's two time
zones used 1896-1937.
* China's five zones have been simplified to two, since the post-1970
differences in the other three seem to have been imaginary. The
zones Asia/Harbin, Asia/Chongqing, and Asia/Kashgar have been
removed; backwards-compatibility links still work, albeit with
different behaviors for time stamps before May 1980. Asia/Urumqi's
1980 transition to UTC+8 has been removed, so that it is now at
UTC+6 and not UTC+8.
* Some zones have been turned into links, when they differed from existing
zones only for older UTC offsets where the data were likely invented.
The affected zones are: Africa/Bamako, Africa/Banjul,
Africa/Conakry, Africa/Dakar, Africa/Freetown, Africa/Lome,
Africa/Nouakchott, Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Sao_Tome, and
Atlantic/St_Helena. This also affects the backwards-compatibility
link Africa/Timbuktu.
* Asia/Shanghai's pre-standard-time UT offset has been changed from
8:05:57 to 8:05:43, the location of Xujiahui Observatory. Its
transition to standard time has been changed from 1928 to 1901.
* Asia/Taipei switched to JWST on 1896-01-01, then to JST on 1937-10-01,
then to CST on 1945-09-21 at 01:00, and did not observe DST in 1945.
In 1946 it observed DST from 05-15 through 09-30; in 1947
from 04-15 through 10-31; and in 1979 from 07-01 through 09-30.
* Asia/Riyadh's transition to standard time is now 1947-03-14, not 1950.
* Europe/Helsinki's 1942 fall-back transition was 1942-10-04 at 01:00, not
1942-10-03 at 00:00.
* Pacific/Pago_Pago has been changed from UTC-11:30 to UTC-11 for the period
from 1911 to 1950.
* Pacific/Chatham has been changed to New Zealand standard time plus
45 minutes for the period before 1957, reflecting a 1956 remark in
the New Zealand parliament.
* Europe/Budapest has several pre-1946 corrections.
* Africa/Accra is now assumed to have observed DST from 1920 through 1935.
* Time in Russia before 1927 or so has been corrected by a few seconds in
the following zones: Europe/Moscow, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Tbilisi,
Asia/Tashkent, Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Europe/Helsinki, and
Europe/Riga.
* A new file 'zone1970.tab' supersedes 'zone.tab' in the installed data.
The new file's extended format allows multiple country codes per zone.
The older file is still installed but is deprecated; its format is
not changing and it will still be distributed for a while, but new
applications should use the new file.
* The file 'iso3166.tab' is planned to switch from ASCII to UTF-8.
It is still ASCII now, but commentary about the switch has been added.
* Changes affecting documentation and commentary.
so it performs the test at the time the rule is invoked. We can't
use a ".if defined" test because that would be tested at the time the
sys.mk file is parsed, which may be before CTFCONVERT has been set by
bsd.own.mk.
Remove the now-unnecessary assignment "CTFCONVERT ?= : ctfconvert",
and the similar assignment to CTFMERGE. Now the build logs are not
cluttered by many unnecessary invocations of the ": ctfconvert ..."
* Elide some unnecessary pairs of quotation marks, to improve readability.
For example, shell_quote "''" is now \'\' instead of ''\'''\'''.
* Don't add quotes around words that contain only safe characters,
to improve readability.
* LC_COLLATE=C to prevent [a-zA-Z] from matching non-ASCII characters.
* Use ${SED} if defined.
This is basically cribbed from regular serial ports, and just adds
hooks to call the pps support routines.
Also, note in the ucom(4) man page that there is about 1 ms of
latency. Discussed on tech-kern in October of 2013, with the only
concern being that someone who didn't know what they were doing might
set up a stratum 1 server, and that somehow might have worse
timekeeping than whatever else that person might have done; the man
page comment is a mitigation for this.
This patch has been live-tested in netbsd-5/i386 and netbsd-6/i386,
and has been running on machines without a USB-serial GPS device for
most of a year with no adverse consequences (very little happens if
the PPS ioctls are not invoked).
