From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 00:36:03 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 45DCB106566B; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:36:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A313E8FC12; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so4352233wwc.31 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ttToSo6IK1OV0jBwZxZ1C1OQf6W9+9xzWEqmXCxXPPc=; b=DCAvMSQo0hTndR+OPbpGyYoELHQGvaCoHBgMQ1ziMjymKj/rtSSKRhTaRUpsecOyYn eHQeVBNm9HAeX1vKfbCEH1AsR7d/fki/HDNkvEU3EU2P1sC/0WuoPwaBXSi2AURKOEKv Jt2d4M+VNLBRcI4uTfH17LrfMqTNU4QOTRzNk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=IM1uH6vhxUV3DE25VZRHBwnrLvsp2A2YgpFumSSdipXplF3NcvduTGBht1rlAAv3Z1 zbkXEMVFmxvugNFbDCC7SapPz4jGfFo0YsCd1TFCd5QwXvbplfp0ksXh4SfjmCfSVsKp /wlAXgVwmWcnq/Irny2bW6AghC5M4CVUjRfWU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.240.71 with SMTP id d49mr3296196wer.0.1301358961518; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Sender: yanegomi@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.173.142 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D91208C.7080804@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C1C73E8-7FAC-4039-B627-C244BA205A9F@gsoft.com.au> <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org> <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D91208C.7080804@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:01 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 82OHsM603JNu_DgZlcp9YWnAHoQ Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Doug Barton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: David Cornejo , Matthew Seaman , 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: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:36:03 -0000 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/28/2011 16:24, David Cornejo wrote: > >> To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to >> specify UTC. =A0Though 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. >> =A0(tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're using UTC since in either case t= he >> system RTC would be set to UTC) >> >> While I don't follow the lists religiously, this is the first time in ma= ny >> years that I've seen someone make this complaint and I'd rather not chan= ge >> it. > > I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're not > alone. :) =A0I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to "fix= " it. I'll provide a patch that I wrote to 'fix' the original behavior when I get home (before Eitan pointed out this was by design). It's trivial (<15 lines IIRC). Fixing UTC to show up in the menu is not that difficult either, but it might talk a bit more monkeying around. Thanks, -Garrett