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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!runxtsa!bde From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) Subject: Re: bsd has wrong date (-1 day) Message-ID: <1993Mar1.055603.15641@runx.oz.au> Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia. References: <PC123.93Feb22211035@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> <1993Feb24.000804.19805@runx.oz.au> <PC123.93Feb25224619@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 05:56:03 GMT Lines: 27 In article <PC123.93Feb25224619@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: >In article <1993Feb24.000804.19805@runx.oz.au> bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes: > > I'm not sure what Pete means by "timezone file". > >I mean /usr/othersrc/share/zoneinfo/europe (or whatever your continent >is). If you install the software timezone support, you can make >changes without having to fudge the kernel. Where is the software to support making changes? >>[kernel hacks] >No - it's quite possible to get it right. You don't have to edit the >kernel, you just change the appropriate file under .../zoneinfo, and >you are away. > >You seem to be saying that I am wrong about how to change the >timezone! But I'm not, because it worked! Unless you changed the kernel time, time stamps on all new files will be off by 24 hours from the leap year bug, plus or minus the difference between your clock's timezone and the default timezone (8 dst in GENERICISA). Exporting the files using methods like tar to systems with correct GMT will appear to change their time stamps. -- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)