From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 16:23:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FF037B406 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 67B00786DE; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:52:43 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:52:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Paul Murphy Cc: Radhika Sambamurti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time change Message-ID: <20011102105243.E44225@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011101155405.83375.qmail@web9305.mail.yahoo.com> <3BE170A8.AE41B771@resfeber.se> <20011101202800.RNUM14847.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011101202800.RNUM14847.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 1 November 2001 at 15:27:59 -0500, Paul Murphy wrote: > On November 1, 2001 10:56 am, Jon Molin wrote: >> Radhika Sambamurti wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am running freebsd 4.4 with Windows 98 on another >>> partition. I am running local (EST) time on Windows and >>> Freebsd. The clock has not adjusted to the new DST. How can >>> i do this? It should be automatic. What time zone do you have set in your system? In case of doubt, do: cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime Then check again. >> date -d >> >> -d dst Set the kernel's value for daylight saving time. If dst is non- >> zero, future calls to gettimeofday(2) will return a >> non-zero for >> tz_dsttime. >> >> see 'man date' Did you try this? It shouldn't make any difference if you have a correct time zone file installed. > As an aside, I have the same setup. FreeBSD changed the hour back, > and then when I booted Windows it also set the hour back. The result > was I was keeping time somewhere in the prairies (TWO hours back > from EST):! The basic problem is that Microsoft doesn't understand time. FreeBSD doesn't change the clock for DST, it just changes the way the internal formats are converted. You're probably best off keeping your Microsoft running at UTC. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message