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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:29:47 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: daylight savings time
Message-ID:  <20080319032947.GA53122@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:

[...]
> I have NTP running and I verified that it works by setting the clock to be
> off by one hour and one minute (basically nudge the time by one minute) and
> the clock synchronizes itself to be accurate to the minute and second but
> off by one hour.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?  Is there some sort of updated time zone
> data that I need?  Thanks in advance.

The port misc/zoneinfo is what you need.

Alternatively, you can tweak the zoneinfo file in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
yourself and zic(8) it; and then copying/linking the appropriate compiled
zoneinfo file to /etc/localtime.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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