From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 16:49:51 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 B7D2416A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:49:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736CE43D4C for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:49:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13063 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2004 16:49:41 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2004 16:49:41 -0000 Received: from 10.50.41.233 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i59GnbWm019184; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:49:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:50:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040609115036.GD3046@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200406091558.i59Fw1PI052371@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406091250.28272.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" cc: Garrett Wollman 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 16:49:51 -0000 On Wednesday 09 June 2004 12:06 pm, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > 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. Sysinstall asks if the box is using UTC or local time first and only invokes tzsetup if you choose local time. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org