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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:43:28 -0700
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early
Message-ID:  <472AD520.3030802@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com>
References:  <20071101225544.wys3pvc4ggs84cok@webmail.1command.com>	<472ACDE9.9090509@delphij.net> <20071101233017.ul8kpfjfms4s4ccc@webmail.1command.com>

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Chris H. wrote:
> Quoting LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>:
>=20
>> 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 t=
o
>> restart the time-sensitive services afterward, or reboot the whole
>> system :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --=20
>=20
> Hello Xin LI, and thank you for your quick response.
>=20
> FWIW The system already knows what timezone it lives in. It simply chos=
e
> to change to PST according to the /normal/ standards. What happened her=
e
> in the USA, is that president Bush decided that we'd be better served h=
ere
> 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 blam=
e
> 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 cl=
ock
> 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. :)
>=20
> Thanks again for taking the time and effort to respond.

I think you have misunderstood me.  I knew what you wanted, which is a
corrected day of PDT->PST transition.

The reason why you want to install misc/zoneinfo or a more recent
release of FreeBSD is exactly because that we have updated it for the
modified standards.  For me, America -> United States -> Pacific Time
works just fine.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!


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