trouble setting timezone for ukraine
Alexander Kapshuk
alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 22:00:10 UTC 2011
On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Alexander Kapshuk<alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> the actual current time is 10.21 pm.
> Your system's clock may be off as well...
>
>> any idea when an updated time zone file will become available?
> It's already in the FreeBSD tree:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> To install it, you'll need something like
> # zic europe
> (where "europe" is the file from the URL above)
> and then tzsetup(8) should install the correct information.
>
> Or you could update your system to anything after October 26.
thanks.
here's what i did based on my understanding of the instructions given above:
# cd $HOME
# fetch -o europe
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/contrib/tzdata/europe?rev=1.7.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain
# zic europe
# tzsetup -r
:; date
Sat Nov 5 00:54:32 EET 2011
the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still wrong
by being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time.
another thing i tried, which didn't seem to help was set these
environment variables in my /etc/rc.conf:
(as suggested here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10276
[post # 6])
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_flags="-u -b"
ntpdate_hosts="ua.pool.ntp.org"
i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it.
can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing?
thanks.
sasha
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