From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 13:33:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B97137B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.clubplus.net (ns1.clubplus.net [216.191.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDC143E65 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by www.clubplus.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7KKTQB04551 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:29:27 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g7KKNqCV025933; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:23:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:23:51 -0400 From: David Banning To: adrian kok Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail startup and time zone Message-ID: <20020820162351.A25888@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020820001008.A15274@skytrackercanada.com> <20020820173714.45859.qmail@web21207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020820173714.45859.qmail@web21207.mail.yahoo.com>; from adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:37:14AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:37:14AM +0800, adrian kok wrote: > Dear all > > Thank you > > For time zone, I still don't understand > > Even though I choose about Ontario time zones, I still > have problem As I recollect, unix boxes always store the time as Greenwich Time which is 4 hours off from Toronto time. If I am correct, what happened is that you originally set greenwich time to Toronto time, so that when you changed your timezone you were off. Now that you have set your time zone, can't you just use date to set the time to the Toronto time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message