Daylight Saving Time (DST)

How does the new daylight saving times for the US effect an generic OpenBSD installation with a US time zone (e.g. US/Central) that has not been patched with the 009_timezone.patch? Do things change if ntpd is being used? Thanks, Claus

Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)

On 3/7/07, Claus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the new daylight saving times for the US effect an generic OpenBSD installation with a US time zone (e.g. US/Central) that has not been patched with the 009_timezone.patch? Do things change if ntpd is being used? The timezone data is

Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Jason Beaudoin wrote: The timezone data is simply a set of dates and times to tell the system when to switch to/from DST. So without the patch, the system will not make any changes. Ntpd won't change this, as the DST change occurs on the next level.

Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)

On 3/7/2007 11:05 AM, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: The kernel and ntpd only deal with UTC time. The zoneinfo files deal with conversion from UTC to local time (including DST). Great, I'll just have the wrong time being used in the logs, by cron and the date command. I think I can live with

Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:25, Claus wrote: How does the new daylight saving times for the US effect an generic OpenBSD installation with a US time zone (e.g. US/Central) that has not been patched with the 009_timezone.patch? Do things change if ntpd is being used? I am a bit puzzled by

Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)

If you don't want to download the OpenBSD src and patch your system all you really need are the new zoneinfo files: Look at this article for the details: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6163042.html NOTE: The file to download from the ftp site is incorrect, it should be