Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:01 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: David Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC Message-ID: <AANLkTiker7sm2jURpVDaHg65jZu_Ki1e%2BMRiuWPOf59D@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D91208C.7080804@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C1C73E8-7FAC-4039-B627-C244BA205A9F@gsoft.com.au> <AANLkTina75LmxFNctQEMtRmpU3dQEKaHYEAKZ7v1BaK7@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimuNmLysuGgnAtDa8Lfs-gwWJn0fzXC87v3PxWn@mail.gmail.com> <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org> <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTi=GXt5zwUr8BMjafdVwO-L-%2Bk_UZ4byyyN6nW98@mail.gmail.com> <4D91208C.7080804@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 16:24, David Cornejo wrote:
>
>> To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to
>> specify UTC. =A0Though it seems the system defaults to UTC if you don't =
run
>> tzsetup anyway, so maybe it would suffice to just say not to do that.
>> =A0(tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're using UTC since in either case t=
he
>> system RTC would be set to UTC)
>>
>> While I don't follow the lists religiously, this is the first time in ma=
ny
>> years that I've seen someone make this complaint and I'd rather not chan=
ge
>> it.
>
> I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're not
> alone. :) =A0I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to "fix=
" it.
I'll provide a patch that I wrote to 'fix' the original behavior
when I get home (before Eitan pointed out this was by design). It's
trivial (<15 lines IIRC).
Fixing UTC to show up in the menu is not that difficult either,
but it might talk a bit more monkeying around.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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