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 distrib

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 c

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 l

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 bu

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 a

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

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 ftp://elsie.nci.

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

2008-03-01 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

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 2

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 Apr

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 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]

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 01:59:5

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 http://list

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 /etc/loc

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

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 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 1

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

2007-01-16 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), > >

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 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