Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

On Nov 4, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> w=
rote:

> On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Alexander Kapshuk<alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>  writes:
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>>> the actual current time is 10.21 pm.
>> Your system's clock may be off as well...
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>>> 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/europ=
e?rev=3D1.7.2.2;content-type=3Dtext%2Fplain
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>> 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.
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>> Or you could update your system to anything after October 26.
> thanks.
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> here's what i did based on my understanding of the instructions given abov=
e:
> # cd $HOME
> # fetch -o europe http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/con=
trib/tzdata/europe?rev=3D1.7.2.2;content-type=3Dtext%2Fplain
> # zic europe
> # tzsetup -r
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> :; date
> Sat Nov  5 00:54:32 EET 2011
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> the timezone did change from 'FET' to 'EET', but the time is still wrong b=
y being 1 hour ahead of the actual ukraine time.
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> 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=3D10276 [po=
st # 6])
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> ntpdate_enable=3D"YES"
> ntpdate_flags=3D"-u -b"
> ntpdate_hosts=3D"ua.pool.ntp.org"
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> i must be doing something wrong. just don't know what is it.
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> can anyone please suggest what it is i should be doing?
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> thanks.
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> sasha
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Try a different time server run directly from tithe command line as root:

#ntpdate time.apple.com=20

And see if that changes the date result.

Tim=
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