Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:40:29 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ``options TIMEZONE'' Message-ID: <199912271340.OAA21163@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Gary Kline wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Do we have a way of hardcoding our TZ into the kernel as (I understand)
> OpenBSD does in the KERNEL config file?
>
> option TIMEZONE=+800
Not that I'm aware of. Why would you want to do that anyway?
It's much more convenient to configure it at runtime using the
"tzsetup" tool. And you only have to do that once (unless you
move to a different timezone). So what would be the point of
hardcoding it in the kernel?
Apart from that, the kernel doesn't care about the timezone at
all, because it is always running on UTC. As far as I know, it
only needs the timezone when accessing local MSDOS filesystems,
because they use local (non-UTC) timestamps. This is an ugly
hack, but what do you expect from MS stuff... Other than that,
timezone information does not belong in the kernel.
I'd recommend that you have a look at the adjkerntz(8) manpage,
and maybe also read the manpages referenced in its "see also"
section. Normally, "tzsetup" is all that you need, once in
your computer's life. If you use sysinstall to install FreeBSD
on your box, it will even run tzsetup for you, so you don't
need it at all afterwards.
Regards
Oliver
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