From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 04:04:00 2008 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 66DC41065675 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (duane.dbq.yournetplus.com [65.124.230.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334EF8FC15 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 843AF27E458; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828B027E451 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:03:59 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill X-X-Sender: d.hill@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <560f92640803181931x28a3508djd400291266ef01f8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (BSF 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: daylight savings time 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: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:00 -0000 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" > ------ _|_ |_| |