trouble setting timezone for ukraine

[Lowell Gilbert]

Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> writes:

> В Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:43:57 -0400
> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> пишет:
>
>> Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time,
>> > i.e. we put our clocks one hour back.
>> >
>> > the current time in ukraine is 8.49 pm; the output of 'date' is:
>> >
>> > :; date
>> > Fri Nov  4 22:49:48 FET 2011
>> >
>> > i tried resetting my timezone via 'sysinstall', but to no avail.
>> >
>> > do i use 'date' to set my system time to the right time, or is
>> > there a better way of doing it?
>> >
>> > :; uname -a
>> > FreeBSD localhost 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 18 18:30:38
>> > UTC 2011
>> > root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>> 
>> I think that your government changed its mind about staying on
>> standard time this year, but only did so at the last minute.  So you
>> probably have an outdated timezone file.  That would lead the
>> computer to be one hour late rather than two, but it's probably a
>> change you need to make.  Also check the system's time in UTC to see
>> whether the clock itself is off.
>
> run tzsetup...

He already did that, using sysinstall.  You can tell that he did it
correctly because his date(1) output says "FET" which is the correct
time zone for him.  His time zone file is, almost certainly, too old,
and will remain so no matter how many times he reinstalls it.  I think
the decision to change the rules was only made about two weeks ago, and
the updated time zone file couldn't have been available until after
that.  I believe the updated tzdata files were brought into the tree on
October 25.