From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 23 21:22:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9371537B710 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA66410; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:52:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:52:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rusty Nejdl Cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TimeZone Bug Message-ID: <20000724135228.K82241@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000722132721.I62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007230240.WAA94345@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000723232003.S62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000723232003.S62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com>; from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:20:04PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 23 July 2000 at 23:20:04 -0500, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > Garrett Wollman(wollman) wrote: >> < said: >> >>> non-country-related time zones, so you'll have to do it manually >>> (which is easier, anyway): >> >>> # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime >> >> Or even easier: >> >> # rm /etc/localtime >> >>> This is definitely not a bug with the system; you could consider it a >>> bug in sysinstall, and I suppose you could file a bug report for it. >> >> Nit: if it's a bug (and as the author I don't believe it is), it's a >> bug in tzsetup(8). Perhaps the wording could be a bit clearer. I'm a >> bit at a loss as to how. (Probably some wording needs to be added as >> an introductory screen explaining both this issue and the multiplicity >> of time zones for places which currently have only one.) > > The reason that I submitted it was the functionality seemed to > have changed from my 3.3 version to the other versions. When I > clicked on that my computer is in UTC, then why was I prompted for a > list of countries? I explained this in my reply. You misunderstood the meaning of the question. This hasn't changed since 3.3, nor for as long back as I can remember. > That was what was confusing for me. I think that in my 3.3 version, > when I hit yes there, it just stopped and went on as that was enough > information. No, your recollection is wrong. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message