Darner's periodic output has been coming around 5:00 EST instead of shortly after midnight, which is 5:00 UTC. Here's a listing of the snapshot directory (minus the symlink arrows, which make it wider than the screen):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Apr 28 2013 .dedup.period lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 20 00:01 snap-20131120-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 21 00:01 snap-20131121-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 22 00:01 snap-20131122-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 23 00:01 snap-20131123-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 24 00:01 snap-20131124-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 25 00:01 snap-20131125-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 26 00:01 snap-20131126-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 27 00:01 snap-20131127-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 29 00:01 snap-20131129-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 4 00:01 snap-20131204-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 5 00:01 snap-20131205-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 6 00:01 snap-20131206-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 7 00:01 snap-20131207-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 8 00:01 snap-20131208-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 9 00:01 snap-20131209-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 10 00:01 snap-20131210-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 11 00:01 snap-20131211-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 12 00:01 snap-20131212-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 13 00:01 snap-20131213-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 14 00:01 snap-20131214-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 15 00:01 snap-20131215-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 16 00:01 snap-20131216-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 17 00:01 snap-20131217-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 18 00:01 snap-20131218-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 19 00:01 snap-20131219-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 20 00:01 snap-20131220-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 21 00:01 snap-20131221-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 22 00:01 snap-20131222-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 23 00:01 snap-20131223-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 24 00:01 snap-20131224-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 25 00:01 snap-20131225-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 26 00:01 snap-20131226-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 27 00:01 snap-20131227-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 28 00:01 snap-20131228-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 29 00:01 snap-20131229-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 30 00:01 snap-20131230-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Dec 31 00:01 snap-20131231-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 1 00:01 snap-20140101-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 2 00:01 snap-20140102-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 3 00:01 snap-20140103-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 4 00:01 snap-20140104-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 5 00:01 snap-20140105-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 6 00:01 snap-20140106-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 7 00:01 snap-20140107-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 8 00:01 snap-20140108-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 9 00:01 snap-20140109-0501 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Jan 9 00:01 .recopy.period lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 11 05:01 snap-20140111-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 12 05:01 snap-20140112-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 14 05:01 snap-20140114-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 15 05:01 snap-20140115-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 16 05:01 snap-20140116-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 17 05:01 snap-20140117-0501 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jan 18 05:01 snap-20140118-0501 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Jan 18 05:01 .snapshots.period -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Jan 18 05:01 .prune.period -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Jan 18 05:01 .rebalance.period -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11 Jan 18 05:01 .reblock.period This change coincided with installing the kernel and world which I had compiled a few days before. (The missing days are caused by bringing the computer to a friend's house and back.) Zyxomma did not change the time of periodic when I upgraded its kernel. On zyxomma: # echo $TZ # date Sun Jan 19 05:56:56 GMT 2014 On darner: # echo $TZ # date Sun Jan 19 00:57:02 EST 2014 Any idea why? Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.