Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:30:17 -0800 From: "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early Message-ID: <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <472ACDE9.9090509@delphij.net> References: <20071101225544.wys3pvc4ggs84cok@webmail.1command.com> <472ACDE9.9090509@delphij.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Quoting LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>: > Chris H. wrote: >> Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated. > > Install /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo or upgrade your system to a recent > release (preferred), e.g. RELENG_6_2 aka FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. > > Re-run tzsetup and choose your time zone accordingly. You will need to > restart the time-sensitive services afterward, or reboot the whole > system :-) > > Cheers, > -- Hello Xin LI, and thank you for your quick response. 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) and set the clock back one hour on the /usual/ date. :) As an experiment, what I have done was bounce the server and set the clock in the BIOS ahead 1 day > save settings > reboot. My /initial/ findings seemed hopeful. But, given that I run ntpdate as a cron job, the first time the job ran, all went back to the /wrong/ dime/date. So as I must wait for 6.3, I'm just going to end the ntpdate cron job until PST /really/ occurs; unless of course someone has a better solution. :) Thanks again for taking the time and effort to respond. --Chris > Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > > -- panic: kernel trap (ignored)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc>