From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 8 23:49:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8EF106566B for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF5B8FC16 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so1334191bwz.43 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:49:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=teA3aISyd1pLnLTjfP5qCiK7VRHOgLlOeRjS8fZ5Oko=; b=mT13BF9Dx8oJ1OMk3kZp+5M90564hUvOOg7GuR2k1aOHgfck4jYtBunWVldvVnxq5B C520/Yi0ydHEf0ForTN0Ou81TjUA4sB6ZH3FVmp2OFD0JpeW3KjEYbsPAlUd02Z3VCgt w0LAycnMJhrF8sIjH2BvBUWnKPyQaClaLo/HA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=sf74RrmQUkxYR2djKtAuDfvYA270LC9abF/3GXInUvqnFA+spXv63tnFLm0bmzINIC gOt+/wTqdAEdLM/RfvVA7C38NnyiIro6fcTDoq1VDN1m1pzqzCz+ZldJUWCT+uIUMSLa F9BkNJQz7xZPDLbgg4T/H9DZUPXI6e3pf6OLk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.160.86 with SMTP id m22mr13780379bkx.82.1252453777179; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:49:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <107BC6AC-0CF6-423F-8AD9-843DA1370035@lassitu.de> References: <107BC6AC-0CF6-423F-8AD9-843DA1370035@lassitu.de> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:49:37 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:18:08 +0000 Subject: Re: tzsetup and EST5EDT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:49:38 -0000 > I get EDT for "1 - Eastern Time" when running sysinstall on an installed > system. Is your local clock on the right day? Sorry, must've been seeing things when I wrote EST. Complicated by the 'EDT' displayed by tzsetup not[?], afaik, being an actual formal timezone but just a marker as to the current state of the actual EST5EDT timezone. I use NTP, UTC CMOS (no /etc/wall_cmos_clock), and /etc/localtime copied in. 1) EST - is UTC-5 all year round, and is in use in only a few geographical places. 2) EST5EDT - is EST (UTC-5) in the 'winter', and 'EDT' (UTC-4) in the 'summer' (now, daylight savings time). > If you think sysinstall should produce "EST5EDT", you're expecting the > wrong thing. It might be a useful idea, with the current state alongside for daylight savings zones. > For quite some time, it's given the time zone abbreviation > appropriate to the chosen location for the current date and time. I don't know what the difference is between the 'New_York' and 'EST5EDT' files. I suppose I could look at the zone compiler for that. The more formal 'EST5EDT' seems to work fine for me. 87a75432ef636782207fa06d603585c0 /etc/localtime 3cf0ccc7d6b240390188367933c9cd90 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules 3cf0ccc7d6b240390188367933c9cd90 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York 6fac20ee52a95b38ad0e1657f77aa4c4 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST 87a75432ef636782207fa06d603585c0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT