Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:28:38 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing timezone without reboot/restarting each service? Message-ID: <1415676518.1517572.189478341.09FB6AE5@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <5460B143.3010004@FreeBSD.org> References: <5460B143.3010004@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 06:36, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > After changing timezones in Russia (with replacing /etc/localtime > with new file), I found that cron works in "old" timezone till > restart. And all other services do the same, but cron is most obvious > here :) > > Looks like libc reads timezone only once and it could not be chamged > for process without restart (which leads to, effectivly, restart of > whole server). > > Is it known problem? I think, it should be fixed somehow. I > understand, that re-check timezone file on each time-related call > could be expensive, though :( > I think this was one of the crowning achievements of systemd, but I'm sure someone can come up with something much more sane than that to address this problem.
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