From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 12:19:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E0537B409 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yIsb-0000WD-00; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:19:29 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9TKJSb00795; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:19:28 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:19:28 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: cooperdm Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timezone question regarding UTC with no timezone Message-ID: <20011030091928.C592@jonc.itouch> References: <3BC15DCD.E9310EE5@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC15DCD.E9310EE5@optusnet.com.au>; from cooperdm@optusnet.com.au on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +1000, cooperdm wrote: > I would like to configre BSD4.2 so that the machines CMOS clock is set > to UTC and does not experience any DST changes, is there a particular > time zone setting for this? > When I run tzsetup I select yes to "Is this machines Cmos clock set to > UTC" but what time zone do I select to not be affected by DST and how > would I change it if I have already selected a timezone. Try the GMT timezone. You can update your machine's by: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime There's quite a few in /usr/share/zoneinfo, pick and choose. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message