From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 23:49:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B691065678 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:49:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@dogwood.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FFC8FC08 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so3916397wyf.13 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:49:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dogwood.com; s=google; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=fBrngDbj33O2CLqcr01cYVa6Ekiwer2a0J5wCURaLN8=; b=CBkaTDQfdYpWUbhUdohvZw0XYi4N8U1aGK/dyCJ2xg3J4mwaDf9L8WtGS30QKVYaqe 5vHSSWfQQcPmQ6SmnbfhKrhtJTU54QwbBm9tCJBQgJglQylnlH/nj+F+iBwgpQubFE1U EdZ83piE1+egEn8wM0FyY39VxUDz4OlzCykqs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=dogwood.com; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Ukn30UD+CDoPN3KEocAGxiCfJ3/N2qGmrUiPK79vtrZ623BTKz6PTF3eyTpIrZgBzm Ilp9n3xxl/dzDlCTaB7pmLco5OTONcNAFx9svzL7pqLDn7IawPvRB1dS7Tme9I1JwxBh 1wxEab72hxoL65UF6VV6SizKF9fhyM6IZS/Dc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.217.7.70 with SMTP id z48mr3276844wes.57.1301354651947; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.82.21 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:24:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4C1C73E8-7FAC-4039-B627-C244BA205A9F@gsoft.com.au> <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org> <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:24:11 -1000 Message-ID: From: David Cornejo To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:49:41 -0000 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 28/03/2011 12:08, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Perhaps the installer should instead: > > > > display CMOS and system time, and ask which one of them is correct, and > > offer a third option to actually correct the timezone or time if neither > > is correct. > > > > That's much easier to grasp. > > ... and a 4th option for when both are correct. Happens quite a lot > round these parts in the winter. However, there are very few people for > whom DST is the same as UTC. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to specify UTC. Though it seems the system defaults to UTC if you don't run tzsetup anyway, so maybe it would suffice to just say not to do that. (tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're using UTC since in either case the system RTC would be set to UTC) While I don't follow the lists religiously, this is the first time in many years that I've seen someone make this complaint and I'd rather not change it. dave c