Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:50:30 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Ben Cottrell <tamino@wolfhut.org> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: day light saving time happened today Message-ID: <513D0026.6030109@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <CBB33B02-5AED-4AAC-B517-A3F36999924F@wolfhut.org> References: <513CC4C4.8080405@a1poweruser.com> <CBB33B02-5AED-4AAC-B517-A3F36999924F@wolfhut.org>
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Ben Cottrell wrote: > On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:37, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote: >> day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. > > The DST change worked fine for me...! > > I'm curious what it prints if you run the command: > > find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc/localtime` > > It used to be that /etc/localtime was, by convention if > nothing else, a symlink so you could easily see what it pointed > to, but not anymore... the above is the easiest way I can think > of to figure out what time zone your system is *really* set to. > > Yes, it should have happened automatically. There's no special > setting you have to enable. It should have "just worked". So > my suspicion is that your /etc/localtime isn't pointing to > what you think it's pointing to... > > ~Ben This is what that find produced # /root >find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc /localtime` MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa echo $TZ undefined variable
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