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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:58:14 +0200
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Daylight Saving Time woes (Europe)
Message-ID:  <200204011159.g31Bx9i28304@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20020401094334.A34689@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20020331163207.GA2020@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:32:08PM %2B0200

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Hi Jonathan (and others)!

On  1 Apr 02 at 9:43 you wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:32:08PM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote:
> > Hi all. The night between Saturday 30 March and Sunday 31 March,
> > Sweden (along with other EU countries?) went into DST. Unfortunately
> > my FreeBSD box did not.
> 
> Run tzsetup(8) to pick up the correct zonefile. Alternatively, if you
> know which zone file to use, you can copy it fron /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
> and to /etc/localtime. 

My situation is even more interesting. I'm based in Estonia, where we 
did not have DST past couple of years. This spring our government 
decided to have DST again. 

Couple of days ago, since I was not sure what the tzsetup thinks of our 
situation, I ran it and chose 'Europe/Finland'. It asked me if the 
abbreviation 'EET' looks correct. Since I didn't know why it wouldn't, 
I chose 'Yes'. So I assume my box should now be in Finnish timezone. 
Finland has had DST all the time, AFAIK.

Still my FreeBSD machine did not apply DST automatically. I also moved 
the clock forward manually.

Just as Martin Karlsson, I read the manpages for anything that 'apropos
timezone' returns.

date "+%Z" says just "EET", which I don't know what to think about.

How can I find out if/when my FreeBSD box has plans to adjust itself to 
DST?

BTW, my CMOS clock is set to local time. 'ps -ax | grep adj'  shows 
that 'adjkerntz -i' is running.

kuller# uname -a
FreeBSD kuller.raad.tartu.ee 4.5-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p1 #0:
Wed Feb 27 19:22:28 EET 2002    
toomas@kuller.raad.tartu.ee:/mirror01/usr/obj/mirror01/usr/src/sys/KULLE
R  i386
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