Re: daylight savings time

2008-03-19 Thread Nerius Landys
The port misc/zoneinfo is what you need. I installed this port and ran 'tzsetup' afterwards. Everything works now. Thanks. I also edited /etc/make.conf to include the line MK_ZONEINFO=no as per the instructions in the file /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo/pkg-descr. However, in my 5.5

Re: daylight savings time

2008-03-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: [...] I have NTP running and I verified that it works by setting the clock to be off by one hour and one minute (basically nudge the time by one minute) and the clock synchronizes itself to be accurate to the minute and second but

Re: daylight savings time

2008-03-18 Thread D Hill
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 19:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I'm running FreeBSD 5.5. I'm in California and my hardware clock is set to UTC I believe (how to check if it's important?). Ever since the daylight saving time shift here in California a couple of weeks ago my clock has been

Re: daylight savings time

2008-03-18 Thread D Hill
Never mind. I was assuming the server was running in UTC. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 at 03:53 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 19:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I'm running FreeBSD 5.5. I'm in California and my hardware clock is set to UTC I believe (how to

RE: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lisa Casey Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Daylight Savings time Hi, I suspect my FreeBSD 5.2 system isn't going to handle the change to

RE: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Trulsson Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:04 PM To: Lisa Casey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:18:52PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-02 Thread Fred C
The file does not exist... /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo# make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = tzdata2007j.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/. fetch: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007j.tar.gz:

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:08:39AM -0800, Fred C wrote: The file does not exist... /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo# make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = tzdata2007j.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-01 Thread Erik Norgaard
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I suspect my FreeBSD 5.2 system isn't going to handle the change to Daylight Savings Time correctly next weekend: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 6 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:18:52PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I suspect my FreeBSD 5.2 system isn't going to handle the change to Daylight Savings Time correctly next weekend: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 6 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 2008

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-01 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi again, - Original Message - From: Erik Trulsson To: Lisa Casey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Daylight Savings time Install the misc/zoneinfo port, which will install an updated zoneinfo file on your machine, and then run

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote: This came down from above?! Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November).

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
hal wrote: 6.2-STABLE zdump -v -c 2008 MST7MDT MST7MDT Sun Mar 11 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 MST7MDT Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600 MST7MDT Sun Nov 4 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Javier Henderson
Your /etc/localtime is probably a copy of the old zoneinfo data, left over from a previous incarnation. My system at home is running 6.2-RELEASE: zdump -v /etc/localtime | more (...) /etc/localtime Sun Mar 31 06:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 1918 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Javier Henderson
On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Errr --- why are you looking at when daylight savings changes happened in 1918? Yeah, I noticed that after I sent the email. Duh. -jav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Javier Henderson wrote: Your /etc/localtime is probably a copy of the old zoneinfo data, left over from a previous incarnation. My system at home is running 6.2-RELEASE: zdump -v /etc/localtime | more (...) /etc/localtime Sun Mar 31 06:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 1918 EST

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Pete Slagle
Matthew Seaman wrote: [You could make /etc/localtime a link or a symlink to the appropriate file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, but only if /etc and /usr/share/zoneinfo happen to be on the same filesystem (ie. on the root filesystem), which is not the case in the default install of FreeBSD] As

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-19 Thread hal
On Jan 18, 2007, at Thursday, Jan18, 2007 5:36 PM, Murray Taylor wrote: This is an issue here at work. We have very many FreeBSD 4.x machines and a growing number of FreeBSD 6.x. The change when daylight saving time starts and ends is an issue for machines in the United States and, we think,

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-18 Thread Josef Grosch
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote: This came down from above?! Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November).

RE: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef Grosch Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 10:59 AM To: hal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11 On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), hal said: Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November). What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread hal
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would have

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would