Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:53:54 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Jim Persinger <jpersinger309@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: time Message-ID: <20011215104853.W16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011215133235.33672.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Jim Persinger wrote: > Greetings - > > I have a time issue. It looks like its set to pacific > standard time, and I'm in eastern. The BIOS is set to > the correct time, but when email comes in to the user, > its 4 hours behind. > > I log into FreeBSD and when running the command - > date, I get: > > Sat Dec 15 09:28:45 GMT 2001 your timezone on the machine is set to GMT, ruffly 4 hours ahead of where you are. you will want to set your timezone to EST, with tzsetup(8). it's fast, and fairly painless. > which is the correct date and time. > > So what do I need to change to make the time the > correct time? set your timezone to the correct one. you will probably have to fix the date on the machine again, with date(1). hope this helps. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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