PDT timezone but UTC time

bob prohaska <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:51:30 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lately hosts reporting
# uname -apKU
FreeBSD ns2.zefox.net 14.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC arm64 aarch64 1404000 1404000

have been reporting
# date
Sun Jun 28 15:23:29 PDT 2026

where the reported timezone is correct but the reported time looks like UTC

/etc/rc.conf contains
ntpd_enable="YES"

but it looks like ntpd_flags is empty. Is setting
ntpd_flags="-g"
the needed fix?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska