Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:53:05 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: daylight savings time Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803190349170.19915@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 19:31 -0700, nlandys@gmail.com confabulated: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.5. I'm in California and my hardware clock is set to > UTC I believe (how to check if it's important?). Ever since the daylight > saving time shift here in California a couple of weeks ago my clock has been > late by one hour. For example right now it is 7:28 PM and my computer says: > > nlandys@speedy# date > Tue Mar 18 18:28:08 PST 2008 > > I have NTP running and I verified that it works by setting the clock to be > off by one hour and one minute (basically nudge the time by one minute) and > the clock synchronizes itself to be accurate to the minute and second but > off by one hour. > > Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there some sort of updated time zone > data that I need? Thanks in advance. Our server BIOS clocks are set to UTC. To ensure UTC time in FBSD, I've always removed the file /etc/localtime. FBSD will default to UTC if it can not find /etc/localtime (at least that's what I've witnessed since FBSD 5.5). ------ _|_ |_| |
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