Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:36:39 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: DST issue (still one hour behind) Message-ID: <200703122236.40029.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200703122224.34766.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> References: <200703122143.27782.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200703122152.38913.john@jnielsen.net> <200703122224.34766.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
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On Monday 12 March 2007 22:24, Peter wrote: > Le Lundi 12 Mars 2007 21:52, John Nielsen a =E9crit=A0: > > On Monday 12 March 2007 21:43, Peter wrote: > > > I rebuilt my 6.2 system entirely and ran tzsetup. My time is still > > > one hour behind. What else do I need to do? > > > > If you run "date" with no arguments what timezone does it say? If it's > > e.g. EDT (the D being for Daylight) then all you need to do is set the > > time manually (assuming you updated in the last 36 hours or so, after > > the time change). Otherwise I'd start with a reboot and then maybe play > > with adjkerntz if that doesn't take care of it. > > I did reboot after using tzsetup. Anyway... > > $ date > Mon Mar 12 21:22:22 EDT 2007 > > Change time manually you say? Yep! Since you probably had an out-of-date /etc/localtime at the time of th= e=20 (new) change your system didn't know to change the clock automatically. Going forward you shouldn't need to worry about it (unless lawmakers decide= =20 to save even more energy in the future...). JN
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