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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:18:29 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Ronnie Clark <ronj_clark@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NTP questions
Message-ID:  <20020408151829.A39651@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020407204314.59855.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>; from ronj_clark@yahoo.com on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:43:14PM -0700
References:  <20020407204314.59855.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:43:14PM -0700, Ronnie Clark wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I hop ethis is a question that is now to the point
> of irritating. How does one update his time server to
> reflect the Daylight Savings?

You don't fix the timeserver. You fix the zonefiles for the timezone.
FreeBSD keeps its internal time as UTC. When you use date(1) what you
see is the local representation of that time. If you've set up the
local timezone correctly with tzsetup(8), you should get the results
you expect.
-- 
Jonathan Chen                      |      To do is to be  -- Nietzsche
<jonc@chen.org.nz>                 |      To be is to do  -- Sartre 
                                   |      Scooby do be do -- Scooby

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