From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 16:10:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A7416A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66B643D48 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34D21FFDD8; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id EA4921FFDD6; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:10:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 56C2415384; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCBD15380; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:06:26 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Garrett Wollman In-Reply-To: <200406091558.i59Fw1PI052371@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: References: <20040609115036.GD3046@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200406091558.i59Fw1PI052371@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default time zone setting X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:10:30 -0000 On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > please do and if you are about UTC can you PLEASE also update the > > somewhat unrelated tzsetup to be able to chose timezones from > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/ (where UTC lives) too ? > > tzsetup(8) only offers zones that are listed in zone.tab -- i.e., > zones that are associated with a state or national region. If you > want UTC, don't run tzsetup, and delete /etc/localtime if you already > have one. I know how to do this but sysinstall uses tzsetup. So when installing releases from CD on new machines it is not possible to set UTC. > I don't believe that any of the files in > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc serve a useful purpose. all my maschines have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC as /etc/localtime up to now. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT