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Cc: Prakash GP <gouda422@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: switch to/from Daylight savings doesn't happen
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:00 am, Prakash GP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FreeBSD 4.5 doesn't seem to auto-switch to/from DST at the
> right time.
>
> ----------%<----------%<----------%<----------%<----------%<--
>--------
>
> # setenv TZ :/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
>

It would seem that the use of the TZ environment variable is 
somewhat deprecated.

I suggest you get rid of it, and then use 'tzsetup' to set your 
time zone. This is menu driven -- doesn't require command line 
arguments.

Apart from the choice of UTC or wall time for your CMOS clock,
I believe the equivalent result can be achieved by copying 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles to /etc/localtime.


Malcolm Kay