Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:03:59 +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.1.00.0803190402550.19915@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803190349170.19915@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803190349170.19915@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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Never mind. I was assuming the server was running in UTC. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 at 03:53 -0000, d.hill@yournetplus.com confabulated: > 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). > > ------ > _|_ > |_| | > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------ _|_ |_| |
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