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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Chris Stenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Timezone change problems Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 13:26:53 GMT Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 31 Sender: usenet@gnome.co.uk (Charlie Root) Message-ID: <DGyG0t.BM@gnome.co.uk> References: <46g3teINNn66@sage.compnews.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hawk.gnome.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gnome.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Andrew Hird (andyh@sage.compnews.co.uk) wrote: : Hi there, : As some of you know we've just undergone a timezone change in the UK. : Anyway - it appears that our Freebsd box got it wrong and I'm now trying : to change the timzone from BST to GMT. If I use tzsetup the machine still : seems to think its BST which is wrong. So first question is where does : tzsetup get its information from? Is it the zoneinfo files, and if so : is this related to problem with the zoneinfo files (there was one on our : suns which we fixed by changing the relevant UK zoneinfo file and recompiling : them with zic). : It has been fixed in FreeBSD-stable. pull over a copy of FreeBSD-stable/src/share/zoneinfo type make make afterinstall now use tzsetup as before Chris