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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: My FreeBSD just lost an hour ....
Date: 2 Mar 1997 21:13:52 GMT
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Ross Wheeler <rossw@rossoft.com.au> wrote:

> OK. I know it's timezone. I know it's the first sunday of Autumn, and
> I should have expected it. My BSDI box didn't throw a wobbly, all my
> FreeBSD boxes have. I tried ntpdate and it corrected a second or so,
> because I assume it now thinks it really has changed timezones.

. Make sure you've got updated zoneinfo files; in particular, if you
  know that the policy has been changed recently.

. The compiled zoneinfo files are under /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

. Run tzsetup(8) to recreate the file if you think it's wrong.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)