From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 23:58:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFD81065672 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B57152B69; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D91208C.7080804@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:58:04 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110319 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Cornejo References: <4C1C73E8-7FAC-4039-B627-C244BA205A9F@gsoft.com.au> <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org> <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:58:06 -0000 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. Though 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. > (tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're using UTC since in either case the > system RTC would be set to UTC) > > While I don't follow the lists religiously, this is the first time in many > years that I've seen someone make this complaint and I'd rather not change > it. I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're not alone. :) I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to "fix" it. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/