Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:17:11 +1300 From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I catch timezone update and perform needed actions? Message-ID: <4702FBA7.6040203@scoop.co.nz>
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OK, so daylight savings just rolled over again. Applications which are already running apparently do not pick up the time zone change. In my installation apache is not regularly restarted, so it's 4 days later and I just noticed that apache has been putting the wrong time stamps on everything, and a script that regularly processes the last 10 minutes of log data based on time stamps on log lines has been coming up empty for days as a result. What I need is a way to stop this happening again in years to come. I thought about submitting a pr asking for some system change such that a user configurable script gets run whenever the time zone changes. Perhaps such a mechanism exists already though? Any pointers? Should this be submitted as a pr? Andrew
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