From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 27 15:36:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA12397 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA12390 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00465; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:35:53 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:35:53 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603272335.QAA00465@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Brian N. Handy" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/localtime and screensaver? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I copied the appropriate timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo to > /etc/localtime. > > The screen went blank. (I was in X.) I sat here, dumbfounded, waiting for > the system to reboot, but...nothing happend. Out of habit, I grabbed the > mouse and the screen came back! I had just turned on the screensaver > somehow. This is actually expected behavior. The same things happens to me when I run ntptime on my laptop after being away for awhile. Basically, the time has changed enough so that sometimes cron jobs start up because the system time is really hosed up. Nate