tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 28 23:58:06 UTC 2011


On 03/28/2011 16:24, David Cornejo wrote:

> To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to
> specify UTC.  Though it seems the system defaults to UTC if you don't run
> tzsetup anyway, so maybe it would suffice to just say not to do that.
>   (tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're using UTC since in either case the
> system RTC would be set to UTC)
>
> While I don't follow the lists religiously, this is the first time in many
> years that I've seen someone make this complaint and I'd rather not change
> it.

I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're 
not alone. :)  I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to 
"fix" it.


Doug

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