From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 22 18:16: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [206.50.17.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C3137B55E for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnejdl@tethys.ringofsaturn.com) Received: (from rnejdl@localhost) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA65870; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:20:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rnejdl) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:20:34 -0500 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TimeZone Bug Message-ID: <20000722202034.J62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> References: <20000722132721.I62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:55:45AM +0930 X-State: Dazed Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg, Thanks for the quick response. This is a much easier way of doing things and that was really what I was looking for. Since I copied the file, my date command now reports UTC as its timezone. Thanks! Rusty Nejdl Training Engineer Verio, INC. Greg Lehey(grog) wrote: > On Saturday, 22 July 2000 at 13:27:21 -0500, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > > I am having a heck of a time trying to get the timezone set to GMT on two > > different UNIX machines. One is running : > > [onyx]:[7:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > uname -a > > FreeBSD onyx.training.verio.net 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 7 20:34:32 GMT 2000 root@pandora.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/TRAINNET i386 > > [onyx]:[7:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > > > > > and the other is running: > > [crimson]:[6:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > uname -a > > FreeBSD crimson.training.verio.net 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Jun 21 12:13:11 CDT 2000 root@crimson.training.verio.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/CRIMSON i386 > > [crimson]:[6:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > > > > > Both are currently set to BST time > > It doesn't look like it from the prompts. > > > and I have run the time zone setup section in /stand/sysinstall and > > every time I tell it that my computer is set to UTC, it ignores me > > and goes right into picking a country, which is not what it should > > do. > > It doesn't ignore you. You misunderstand the question. It wants to > know what the time in your CMOS clock is. Microsoft doesn't > understand the concept of time zones, so it sets the clock to local > time. UNIX usually sets UTC, though if you're dual booting it gives > you the option of using local time. > > > I also went into the Europe section into Great Britain to try to > > pick UTC/GMT manually and it was not a choice. > > Correct. UTC is not a choice for Great Britain, any more than it is > for Afghanistan. > > > It appears that this is a bug in the TIMEZONE section. Let me know. > > UTC is not a European time zone: it doesn't correspond to any country, > European or otherwise. It appears that sysinstall doesn't support the > 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 > > 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. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Rusty Nejdl "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message