From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 07:51:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A713C16A418 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 07:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9A713C480 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 07:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521FFEB8781; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:44:01 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zvuJIQD65Dh1; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:43:56 +0800 (CST) Received: from LI-Xins-MacBook.local (c-67-161-39-180.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.161.39.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26476EB8707; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:43:52 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type; b=nGYFepk1EgZ9k12fxFdF9T1meFHP22OtEw0dmdB424+x4R9EPqvYZBvEWoiH7deqZ GTs8bKVBAty/6+3BYEFMw== Message-ID: <472AD520.3030802@delphij.net> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:43:28 -0700 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris H." References: <20071101225544.wys3pvc4ggs84cok@webmail.1command.com> <472ACDE9.9090509@delphij.net> <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB082EDF6CD405E053550DA2B" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:51:03 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB082EDF6CD405E053550DA2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris H. wrote: > Quoting LI Xin : >=20 >> Chris H. wrote: >>> Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated. >> >> Install /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo or upgrade your system to a recent >> release (preferred), e.g. RELENG_6_2 aka FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. >> >> Re-run tzsetup and choose your time zone accordingly. You will need t= o >> restart the time-sensitive services afterward, or reboot the whole >> system :-) >> >> Cheers, >> --=20 >=20 > Hello Xin LI, and thank you for your quick response. >=20 > FWIW The system already knows what timezone it lives in. It simply chos= e > to change to PST according to the /normal/ standards. What happened her= e > in the USA, is that president Bush decided that we'd be better served h= ere > if we waited an additional week to set our clocks back one hour. So. It= > seems > this particular server decided to ignore our president (not that I blam= e > it) > and set the clock back one hour on the /usual/ date. :) > As an experiment, what I have done was bounce the server and set the cl= ock > in the BIOS ahead 1 day > save settings > reboot. My /initial/ findings= > seemed hopeful. But, given that I run ntpdate as a cron job, the first = time > the job ran, all went back to the /wrong/ dime/date. So as I must wait > for 6.3, I'm just going to end the ntpdate cron job until PST /really/ > occurs; > unless of course someone has a better solution. :) >=20 > Thanks again for taking the time and effort to respond. I think you have misunderstood me. I knew what you wanted, which is a corrected day of PDT->PST transition. The reason why you want to install misc/zoneinfo or a more recent release of FreeBSD is exactly because that we have updated it for the modified standards. For me, America -> United States -> Pacific Time works just fine. 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