Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:32:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Timezone question Message-ID: <19990405113252.P2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990405024530.E257@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:45:30AM %2B0100 References: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se> <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> <19990404125723.A61426@sr.se> <19990405010416.L299@marder-1.localhost> <19990405095153.I2142@lemis.com> <19990405015204.A257@marder-1.localhost> <19990405104028.K2142@lemis.com> <19990405024530.E257@marder-1.localhost>
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On Monday, 5 April 1999 at 2:45:30 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:40:28AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 5 April 1999 at 1:52:05 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:51:53AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Monday, 5 April 1999 at 1:04:17 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Does FreeBSD update the RTC for Daylight Saving? >>>> >>>> You mean the clock? No. >>>> >> What do you mean by "correct"? My CMOS clock shows UTC, and that's >> correct. Since UTC and GMT are pretty much the same thing, you might >> consider UTC to currently be "incorrect". But I suppose you mean that >> it's showing BST, right? >> > > Yes > >>> Since you say FreeBSD doesn't change the CMOS clock >> >> I didn't say that. > > What did you mean by "No" in the first couple of lines quoted above? FreeBSD, not adjkerntz :-) I went on to discuss adjkerntz later. >> adjkerntz *does* update the clock. Take a look at >> the man page: it's extensive. > > I've just looked at it. /etc/wall_cmos_clock exists so FreeBSD > interprets the CMOS clock as local time. There is also the following > entry in /etc/crontab: > > # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock, > # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock. > # See adjkerntz(8) for details. > 1,31 0-4 * * * root /sbin/adjkerntz -a > > which I take to mean that my CMOS clock *was* adjusted by adjkerntz > -a since I don't have a UTC CMOS clock (because of the existence > of /etc/wall_cmos_clock). Is this correct? Yes, I assume so. >>> I don't have a problem, everything is working, I was just curious >>> *why* it was working. >> >> Right. I think this is thanks to adjkerntz. >> >>> BTW, In a previous post of yours in this thread you mentioned about >>> Windows not knowing about the TZ in Northern Territories, >> >> That's the Northern Territory. There's only one of them. > > Damn. I was right. A question in the pub quiz tonight was "Which > is the only Australian state without an 's' in it's name?". I > rembered your e-mail and answered "Northern Territory" but was told > I was wrong, it was Victoria. They're right. Australia has 6 states and two territories. A territory isn't a state. > That's why I pluralized it in my e-mail, I thought I'd remembered > your e-mail incorrectly. I shall take the matter up with the > question-master. >> And yes, the double entendre was intentional. That was the whole >> point. I'm off to the AUUGwet conference in Darwin NT next week, and >> I'm wondering how to bring the matter to their attention. > > Turn up an hour late (or early?) for the conference and tell them > their clocks are wrong, because Windows says so :-) It would probably be a convincing argument. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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