Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:06:38 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early
Message-ID:  <A9732D4E-89F5-4ABF-A31B-ECBB0156A84A@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com>
References:  <20071101225544.wys3pvc4ggs84cok@webmail.1command.com> <472ACDE9.9090509@delphij.net> <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Chris H. wrote:

> FWIW The system already knows what timezone it lives in. It simply  
> chose
> to change to PST according to the /normal/ standards. What happened  
> here
> in the USA, is that president Bush decided that we'd be better  
> served here
> if we waited an additional week to set our clocks back one hour. So.  
> It seems
> this particular server decided to ignore our president (not that I  
> blame it)

Most of us went through this *last* year when the rules took effect.   
Did it not affect your system last year?

Basically you need to get a corrected /etc/localtime and restart any  
long running programs that depend on time, notably cron.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?A9732D4E-89F5-4ABF-A31B-ECBB0156A84A>