Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:59:40 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine Message-ID: <4EB46E5C.2000107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44lirvbopw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4EB44272.6060809@gmail.com> <44vcqzbrlu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20111104215321.5f9ca2eb@nonamehost.> <44r51nbq4p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4EB457C1.2070607@gmail.com> <44lirvbopw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk<alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> writes: > >> the actual current time is 10.21 pm. > Your system's clock may be off as well... > >> any idea when an updated time zone file will become available? > It's already in the FreeBSD tree: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain > > To install it, you'll need something like > # zic europe > (where "europe" is the file from the URL above) > and then tzsetup(8) should install the correct information. > > Or you could update your system to anything after October 26. thanks. here's what i did based on my understanding of the instructions given above: # cd $HOME # fetch -o europe http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain # zic europe # tzsetup -r :; date Sat Nov 5 00:54:32 EET 2011 the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still wrong by being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time. another thing i tried, which didn't seem to help was set these environment variables in my /etc/rc.conf: (as suggested here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10276 [post # 6]) ntpdate_enable="YES" ntpdate_flags="-u -b" ntpdate_hosts="ua.pool.ntp.org" i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it. can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing? thanks. sasha
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