From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 11 02:49:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550EE3F8 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:49:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tamino@wolfhut.org) Received: from pendor.wolfhut.org (pendor.wolfhut.org [173.228.91.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E0FF32 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.42.100] (173-228-91-224.static.sonic.net [173.228.91.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pendor.wolfhut.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A13ADBB1F; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today From: Ben Cottrell In-Reply-To: <513D3EEB.3020201@a1poweruser.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:49:49 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <57B1D1B8-5DBC-41C9-AB76-55687AB45359@wolfhut.org> References: <513CC4C4.8080405@a1poweruser.com> <513D0026.6030109@a1poweruser.com> <5C91A731-BF1E-4FD2-AB26-5348F0685967@wolfhut.org> <513D0FBA.1070303@a1poweruser.com> <44fw02lt0d.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <513D369C.8080907@a1poweruser.com> <20130310215632.3c0344f2@europa> <513D3EEB.3020201@a1poweruser.com> To: Fbsd8 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: Mike Jeays , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:49:55 -0000 On Mar 10, 2013, at 19:18, Fbsd8 wrote: > What is really needed is for the tzsetup program to state which east = coast selections have day light saving included. Maybe a pr is in order. Nope, you pretty conclusively proved that you're using the right time zone setting. Trust me. :-) That md5 you posted is the exact same md5 that's on my own system. My own America/New_York is doing just fine, thank you. ;-) Something else is going on. *What*, I don't know. But you chose the right time zone in tzsetup and that time zone description file definitely does have DST rules in it. I never use the wall_cmos_clock setting, because I don't trust it -- at least with the traditional behavior (wall_cmos_clock=3D0) I know *exactly* what's going on. I really don't know what is happening under the hood when that's turned on, so I have no idea if it could be related or not. But I'm curious what it shows if you run: sysctl machdep.wall_cmos_clock ~Ben=