Subject: Re: DST - how to adjust the time?
To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
From: Mark Willey <willeyma@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/17/1996 15:51:18
Rick Byers writes:
>
> Ever since the time change (I know it's a little late - I've been trying to
> fix it on my own), my clock an hour off. I keep the hardware clock at the
> current local time (for dos and Win95), and I used the TIMEZONE config
> option to adjust the clock in NetBSD (which BTW wasn't documented correctly
> - it's the number of minutes to change by - not hours). How can I convince
> NetBSD to adjust the clock further during daylight savings time? I could
> allways switch the TIMEZONE parameter and recompile the kernel every time
> the time changes - but that's a real hassle.
>
> This has been bugging me for a while - and I remember hearing that TIMEZONE
> and DST are obsolete. I couldn't see what DST did when I changed it anyway.
> I also noticed that the -d and -t parameters to date don't seem to do
> anything...
>
> Anyway, please let me know if you've got an idea, this has gone on long
> enough <grin>....
link /etc/localtime to the appropriate file in /usr/share.....????
somewhere.
Mark