Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> writes: > On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Alexander Kapshuk<alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> the actual current time is 10.21 pm. >> Your system's clock may be off as well... >> >>> any idea when an updated time zone file will become available? >> It's already in the FreeBSD tree: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain >> >> To install it, you'll need something like >> # zic europe >> (where "europe" is the file from the URL above) >> and then tzsetup(8) should install the correct information. >> >> Or you could update your system to anything after October 26. > thanks. > > here's what i did based on my understanding of the instructions given above: > # cd $HOME > # fetch -o europe > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain > # zic europe > # tzsetup -r > > :; date > Sat Nov 5 00:54:32 EET 2011 > > the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still > wrong by being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time. > > another thing i tried, which didn't seem to help was set these > environment variables in my /etc/rc.conf: > (as suggested here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10276 > [post # 6]) > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpdate_flags="-u -b" > ntpdate_hosts="ua.pool.ntp.org"
That will only do anything at startup. To do the same thing without needing to reboot, the command line would be # ntpdate -u -b ua.pool.ntp.org > i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it. > > can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing? Well, start with what I suggested a while back: try "date -u" and see whether that is the correct UTC time. If not, the ntpdate command will solve you problems. If it is, there's still something else wrong. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
