Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:43:34 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time woes (Europe) Message-ID: <20020401094334.A34689@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020331163207.GA2020@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:32:08PM %2B0200 References: <20020331163207.GA2020@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:32:08PM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote:
> Hi all. The night between Saturday 30 March and Sunday 31 March,
> Sweden (along with other EU countries?) went into DST. Unfortunately
> my FreeBSD box did not.
>
> Having searched the archives and read the manpages for 'date' and
> 'strftime' ~=100 times, I'll give up and ask here. How do I fix
> this?
>
> I cvsup'd my sources, went to /usr/src/share/zoneinfo and ran 'make
> all install', thinking that would fix it. It didn't.
Run tzsetup(8) to pick up the correct zonefile. Alternatively, if you
know which zone file to use, you can copy it fron /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
and to /etc/localtime. For all our servers here, I also prefer to have
the hardware clocks keep UTC.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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