From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 27 11:52:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA09870 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA09847 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id LAA14605; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26121; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:52:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199610271952.LAA26121@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: jgrosch@sirius.com cc: carrera@idirect.com (Jason Lixfeld), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Settingup the time In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 27 Oct 96 11:16:17 -0800. <199610271916.LAA00472@superior.truenorth.org> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:52:42 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Just wondering, with the new time kicking in now, how do I change the >>time!? The system, I assume is supposed to do it automatically, but it >>is still reading 1:21pm when it should be 12:21pm! >I had the same problem this morning. I rebooted the system and since the >bios on my machine had corrected the time just restarting FreeBSD solved >the problem. I am in the habit of rebooting my machine every Sunday morning >to clean out the cruft in /tmp and the swap space. >From the fact that you already found out by now that you have minus 2 hours (daylight savings time changes at 2:00am), you can probably deduce that you shouldn't let your BIOS do that if you're running a Unix-based system (or Windows NT or Windows 95, for that matter) on that machine, or you'll get your time adjusted twice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------