Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:50:04 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dayligh Saving Time in Europe Message-ID: <20000403125003.A10889@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <38ec6625.2846652@relay.skynet.be>; from bart.lateur@skynet.be on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:39:43AM %2B0000 References: <38ec6625.2846652@relay.skynet.be>
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:39:43AM +0000, Bart Lateur wrote: > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. It took me a while to find out that Daylight > Saving Time ought to be set through Time Zones. > > Although my local time is set correctly, my gmtime probably isn't. I'm > trying to fix that now. > > So I start up sysinstall, and go to Configure -> Time Zones -> Europe. I > get a long list of European countries. I select Belgium. It asks "does > the abbreviation 'CEST' look ok?" I click "NO", because the time zone is > CET; the "S" stands for Standard, and I think I want 'CEDT'. But I don't > get that choice. You actually *do* want CEST. "S" stands for Summer, not Standard. The timezones for Belgium are the same as here in Sweden. CET (Central European Time) during the winter and CEST (Central European Summer Time) during summer. > > So I get to choose from a long list of countries for which half come out > to "CEST"? With no way to select Daylight Saving Time? > > Humph. But, enough whining. So, sysinstall won't work. Can I compensate > for Daylight Saving Time the user unfriendly way? > Sysinstall works fine and gives you the correct answer, no need to do anything else. > ps. This is the version FreeBSD 3.4 that came on the latest CD's from > Walnut Creek (december 1999). > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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