Chris H. wrote: > Quoting LI Xin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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.
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, -- Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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