Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:53:28 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Jim Persinger <jpersinger309@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time Message-ID: <20011216095328.A35741@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20011215133235.33672.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>; from jpersinger309@yahoo.com on Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -0800 References: <20011215133235.33672.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -0800, Jim Persinger wrote: [...] > I log into FreeBSD and when running the command - > date, I get: > > Sat Dec 15 09:28:45 GMT 2001 > > which is the correct date and time. > Are you sure? That looks like GMT time to me. You need to go to /usr/share/zoneinfo and copy the appropriate timezone file to /etc/localtime. *Then* use the 'date' command to check what your local time is, and set it appropriately. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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