From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 5 18:25:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA18161 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 18:25:33 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA18154 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 18:25:28 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA10370; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:23:18 +1000 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:23:18 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503060223.MAA10370@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au Subject: Re: Daylight Savings ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, john@pyromania.apana.org.au Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>Whats the correct way to change the timezone with 2.0R ? >> >>>At the moment it's EST +1000 and I want to make it EST +1100. >> >>>I have /etc/localtime set to Melbourne Australia. >I think that the real problem is that the timezone data you are using >is correct for Sydney, but not for Melbourne (at least this year), so >it has gone back to normal time too soon. The changeover worked fine >for me (in Sydney). Maybe you could try the Hobart entry -- it is still >at +1100. Yes, the FreeBSD data source file (/usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia) is wrong this year for Victoria and South Australia, although correct for Tasmania, so when the DST switch occurred in NSW, FreeBSD started reporting the wrong time in Victoria, and if you are running with the system clock on local time, then FreeBSD should have screwed up the system clock too :-]. Bruce