Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:03:15 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: garbanzo@hooked.net, grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight savings time? Message-ID: <199710271303.IAA03000@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 11:35:14PM -0800, Alex wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 08:38:26PM -0800, Alex wrote: > >>> Just outta curiosity, does FBSD automagically adjust to daylight savings > >>> times? Or will I have to muck around in the bios? > >> > >> That's a funny message to send on Sun, 26 Oct 1997 20:38:26 -0800 > >> (PST). Yes, it has already automatically adjusted for you :-) > > > > No it hasn't. That message was sent at 7:38. > > Hmmm. Did you change the date manually, or did you reboot? Normally > it's automatic, and it's telling us that the time zone is PST, 8 hours > behind UTC, both of which are correct for the time it specifies. > > >> FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. > > > > My BIOS apparently lacks a daylight savings setting. > > FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. > > Greg > I'll just add to this - my FreeBSD 2.2-970510 machine didn't handle daylight saving's time correctly this go 'round. I was logged on across the time switch; and when I returned, the clock (and the date) command were one hour off... i.e. the change hadn't occurred. When I rebooted - things were fine. My localtime should be pointing to EDT... - Dave Rivers -
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