From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 22:00:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA984106566B for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230C98FC0C for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so4651466faa.13 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qfrXW8SDtkNKX2tURmli0vw56tpF+5LC1o9wCQ38/qI=; b=fxppNnTT5fOzQfcgalB6EbSbEknFXxnFwOUC8YjWyOHQapIlVhiSX7imYhtlRQPjET c8ckeMRfbm5z0+E6TAY7v+Ji005axa5+rClPzONTSVy8q98DhdiclrmX1YYAFVrQbQU9 7LLq1UrV6eza29uLRSFZ62O97KCrPd8kAQ5F0= Received: by 10.223.17.80 with SMTP id r16mr6617551faa.37.1320444009147; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (93-127-96-97.static.vega-ua.net. [93.127.96.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l26sm18626156fad.17.2011.11.04.15.00.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EB46E5C.2000107@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:59:40 +0200 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111014 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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> In-Reply-To: <44lirvbopw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:00:10 -0000 On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk 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