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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:37:12 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: day light saving time happened today
Message-ID:  <20130311103712.79287cb9@scorpio>
In-Reply-To: <513DE7AF.6090509@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:18:23 -0500
Noel articulated:

> On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> >
> > Even though the system is now on DST the date command still
> > displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST?
> 
> EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone
> not to be confused with
> EST = Eastern Standard Time timezone
> not to be confused with
> DST = daylight savings time, not a timezone, never shown on a
> computer.
> 
> Your system correctly switched to daylight savings time, as verified
> by the EDT timezone indicator.  Most likely the clock was already an
> hour slow before the time change.

Just wondering, but do you have NTP running to keep the time accurate?

-- 
Jerry ♔

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