From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 9 11:30:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C14A37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8910943F3F for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from foogate.softweyr.com (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEB5433DE; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:28:26 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Thomas Seck , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalid ps start time values for kernel processes ? Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:27:15 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200302081350.33720.paul.koch@statscout.com> <200302081422.h18EMcud028557@lurza.secnetix.de> <20030208184708.GA705@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030208184708.GA705@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302091227.15188.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 08 February 2003 18:47, Thomas Seck wrote: > * Oliver Fromme (olli@secnetix.de): > > However, if the CMOS clock runs in local time, then there > > is no way for the kernel to convert it to UTC, because the > > kernel does not know what your local timezone is. How > > should it know? > > NetBSD allows you (when I last looked at it, it was 1.5.something) to > set a kernel variable for the difference between CMOS time and UTC at > compile time. You would then need two kernels to reflect DST. Or a hint with the offset, and an operator or program smart enough to change the hint on DST changes. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message