From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 10 21:50:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FF89BB for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:50:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75061E1 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.1] ([173.88.202.176]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:50:32 -0700 Message-ID: <513D0026.6030109@a1poweruser.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:50:30 -0400 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Cottrell Subject: Re: day light saving time happened today References: <513CC4C4.8080405@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Mar 2013 21:50:32.0148 (UTC) FILETIME=[49AC9940:01CE1DD9] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] Cc: FreeBSD questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:50:31 -0000 Ben Cottrell wrote: > On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:37, Fbsd8 wrote: >> day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. > > The DST change worked fine for me...! > > I'm curious what it prints if you run the command: > > find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc/localtime` > > It used to be that /etc/localtime was, by convention if > nothing else, a symlink so you could easily see what it pointed > to, but not anymore... the above is the easiest way I can think > of to figure out what time zone your system is *really* set to. > > Yes, it should have happened automatically. There's no special > setting you have to enable. It should have "just worked". So > my suspicion is that your /etc/localtime isn't pointing to > what you think it's pointing to... > > ~Ben This is what that find produced # /root >find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc /localtime` MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa echo $TZ undefined variable