Re: Timezones driving me crazy - 3.3-STABLE, i386

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT /var/www/etc/localtime

restart apache (perhaps).

ntp is just fine.  Keep the clock on GMT.  It's the Right Thing(tm).

Quoting C. Bensend (benny_(_at_)_bennyvision_(_dot_)_com):
> Hey folks,
> 
>    I recently built a 3.3-STABLE machine to replace a 3.1-STABLE machine
> for email, webserving, etc.  It's working like a champ, with one major
> flaw - I cannot seem to get the timezone stuff right.
> 
>    After the installation of SquirrelMail for webmail, we noticed that
> the time within the webmail interface was off by 5 hours (5 hours ahead,
> which would be GMT - we're in CST).  I did some poking around, and the
> machine's hardware clock _was_ set to GMT.  My symlink for localtime in
> /etc was set correctly:
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel          27 May 21 23:02 /etc/localtime ->
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT