From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 20:15:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBF01065672 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 20:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063B78FC17 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 20:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.53]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCEAA71C13 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 21150 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2011 20:15:52 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 7873, pid: 22542, t: 0.1755s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:13495 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Nov 2011 20:15:52 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B4C322E0EA; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:15:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Ivan Klymenko References: <4EB44272.6060809@gmail.com> <44vcqzbrlu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20111104215321.5f9ca2eb@nonamehost.> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:15:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20111104215321.5f9ca2eb@nonamehost.> (Ivan Klymenko's message of "Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:53:21 +0200") Message-ID: <44r51nbq4p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alexander Kapshuk Subject: Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:15:54 -0000 Ivan Klymenko writes: > =A7=A3 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:43:57 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert =A7=E1=A7=DA=A7= =EA=A7=D6=A7=E4: > >> Alexander Kapshuk writes: >>=20 >> > i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time, >> > i.e. we put our clocks one hour back. >> > >> > the current time in ukraine is 8.49 pm; the output of 'date' is: >> > >> > :; date >> > Fri Nov 4 22:49:48 FET 2011 >> > >> > i tried resetting my timezone via 'sysinstall', but to no avail. >> > >> > do i use 'date' to set my system time to the right time, or is >> > there a better way of doing it? >> > >> > :; uname -a >> > FreeBSD localhost 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 18 18:30:38 >> > UTC 2011 >> > root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >>=20 >> I think that your government changed its mind about staying on >> standard time this year, but only did so at the last minute. So you >> probably have an outdated timezone file. That would lead the >> computer to be one hour late rather than two, but it's probably a >> change you need to make. Also check the system's time in UTC to see >> whether the clock itself is off. > > run tzsetup... He already did that, using sysinstall. You can tell that he did it correctly because his date(1) output says "FET" which is the correct time zone for him. His time zone file is, almost certainly, too old, and will remain so no matter how many times he reinstalls it. I think the decision to change the rules was only made about two weeks ago, and the updated time zone file couldn't have been available until after that. I believe the updated tzdata files were brought into the tree on October 25.