Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:55:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TimeZone Bug Message-ID: <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000722132721.I62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> References: <20000722132721.I62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com>
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On Saturday, 22 July 2000 at 13:27:21 -0500, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > I am having a heck of a time trying to get the timezone set to GMT on two > different UNIX machines. One is running : > [onyx]:[7:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > uname -a > FreeBSD onyx.training.verio.net 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 7 20:34:32 GMT 2000 root@pandora.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/TRAINNET i386 > [onyx]:[7:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > > > and the other is running: > [crimson]:[6:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > uname -a > FreeBSD crimson.training.verio.net 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Jun 21 12:13:11 CDT 2000 root@crimson.training.verio.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/CRIMSON i386 > [crimson]:[6:20pm]:[/home/rnejdl] > > > Both are currently set to BST time It doesn't look like it from the prompts. > and I have run the time zone setup section in /stand/sysinstall and > every time I tell it that my computer is set to UTC, it ignores me > and goes right into picking a country, which is not what it should > do. It doesn't ignore you. You misunderstand the question. It wants to know what the time in your CMOS clock is. Microsoft doesn't understand the concept of time zones, so it sets the clock to local time. UNIX usually sets UTC, though if you're dual booting it gives you the option of using local time. > I also went into the Europe section into Great Britain to try to > pick UTC/GMT manually and it was not a choice. Correct. UTC is not a choice for Great Britain, any more than it is for Afghanistan. > It appears that this is a bug in the TIMEZONE section. Let me know. UTC is not a European time zone: it doesn't correspond to any country, European or otherwise. It appears that sysinstall doesn't support the non-country-related time zones, so you'll have to do it manually (which is easier, anyway): # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime This is definitely not a bug with the system; you could consider it a bug in sysinstall, and I suppose you could file a bug report for it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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