From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 16:40:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47750155A5 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11MGoD-0003TO-00; Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:16:41 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11MGoC-0001rH-00; Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:16:40 +0100 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:16:40 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time zone problems (perhaps just with httpd?) Message-ID: <19990901211639.B7065@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote: > I HAVE set my time zone in rc.conf Eh? Which option sets the time zone in there? What's wrong with just doing `cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/{your time zone} /etc/localtime', like everyone else does? (Well, I do, anyway.) Another way would be to use a symbolic link (probably better that way, actually). > BIOS time is set to my local time (CST). Yuk. Still, whatever suits you. I think it's *much* nicer to set the BIOS time to GMT, unless perhaps you're dual booting to another operating system. If it's a FreeBSD-only machine, I find a GMT BIOS clock nicer. > However, certain programs seem to insist on reporting the time in GMT. > Sendmail does, but, of course, that is rather normal :-). Is it? Oh. I thought Sendmail reported the host's local time, but I don't use Sendmail, so I could be wrong. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message