From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 05:23:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA19391 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA19384 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA00854; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:22:52 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma000852; Mon Oct 27 15:22:41 1997 Message-ID: <34549553.7858@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:21:23 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kristian Kennaway CC: Alex , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight savings time? References: <9710271221.AA23987@bragg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kristian Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Just outta curiosity, does FBSD automagically adjust to daylight savings > > times? Or will I have to muck around in the bios? > > I was quite surprised when my system adjusted itself to the start of > daylight savings here in Australia early Sunday morning - I would assume > this was behaviour initiated by Freebsd, not the BIOS (which I havent > told about my geographical location :-) > > Kris To all those interested, and all those who (like me) happen to live in a country where the rules for daylight saving time change every year, take a look at /usr/src/share/zoneinfo. There you'll find the files (by continents) that dictate the adjustments made for daylight saving time, along with the rest of the time zone data. Nadav