From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 15:52:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2900637B406 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yMCg-0004LM-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:52:26 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 1842311D4; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:43:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:43:42 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timezone question regarding UTC with no timezone Message-ID: <20011029234342.C1617@raggedclown.net> References: <3BC15DCD.E9310EE5@optusnet.com.au> <20011030091928.C592@jonc.itouch> <20011029151559.A12295@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <20011029151559.A12295@tao.thought.org>; from kline@tao.thought.org on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:15:59PM -0800 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 29, 2001 at 03:15:59PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:19:28AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > 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 > > Just a teensy little point here.. completely irrelevant, but technically GMT is not a time-zone. It is a reference time at a line on the ground in Greenwich in London. -- Regards (pedantically) Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message