Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:54:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, huntting@glarp.com Subject: Re: changing timezones Message-ID: <20010605115450.N95379@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200106050208.f5528eR34540@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:08:40PM -0700 References: <XFMail.20010605113429.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200106050208.f5528eR34540@earth.backplane.com>
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On Monday, 4 June 2001 at 19:08:40 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote at some indeterminate time: >> On 05-Jun-2001 Matt Dillon wrote: >>> slate. It is also fairly easily to simply restart the >>> effected servers. I'm not sure an automated solution is really >>> desireable. Timezones generally never change except maybe >>> on a laptop and laptops get powered up and down all the time >>> anyway. >> >> Unless your suspend to disk works in which case you basically never power off >> for real :) >> >> (At least I don't). > > Hah. I don't trust laptops that much. Besides, I don't mind > waiting the 30 seconds or so it takes to boot. Your choice, of course. I do. > Of course, in time the battery and power savings capabilties > will mean that you won't have to suspend to disk at all. Just > keep the thing on 24x7 serving up your personal web pages! Well, I don't suspend to disk, but indeed in suspend mode my laptop will last for a week or so, far longer than I am ever away from a power point. I still don't understand what you're saying about programs not liking the time zone changing from under them. Typically any program which uses time zones will access /etc/timezone once only. It remains stuck in that time zone. That may be a nuisance (I find it annoying with syslogd, for example, but kill -1 will fix that). I frequently fly transpacific without rebooting, but change through all time zones where I stop over. I've never had any problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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