From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 22 19:40:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BDE37B542 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:40:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA94345; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:40:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:40:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200007230240.WAA94345@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Rusty Nejdl , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TimeZone Bug In-Reply-To: <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000722132721.I62650@tethys.ringofsaturn.com> <20000723095545.A7908@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > 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 Or even easier: # rm /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. Nit: if it's a bug (and as the author I don't believe it is), it's a bug in tzsetup(8). Perhaps the wording could be a bit clearer. I'm a bit at a loss as to how. (Probably some wording needs to be added as an introductory screen explaining both this issue and the multiplicity of time zones for places which currently have only one.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message