daylight savings time

[D Hill]

Never mind. I was assuming the server was running in UTC.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 at 03:53 -0000, d.hill at yournetplus.com confabulated:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 19:31 -0700, nlandys at gmail.com 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
>> late by one hour.  For example right now it is 7:28 PM and my computer 
>> says:
>> 
>> nlandys at speedy# date
>> Tue Mar 18 18:28:08 PST 2008
>> 
>> 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 but
>> off by one hour.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to fix this?  Is there some sort of updated time zone
>> data that I need?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Our server BIOS clocks are set to UTC. To ensure UTC time in FBSD, I've 
> always removed the file /etc/localtime. FBSD will default to UTC if it can 
> not find /etc/localtime (at least that's what I've witnessed since FBSD 5.5).
>
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