Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:10:59 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Timothy Brown <tbrown@ANET-STL.COM> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timezone stuff (2.2-BETA) Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.970102140844.2394A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970102091758.26940A-100000@zeus.anet-stl.com>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Timothy Brown wrote: > Windows 95 boots up. It tells me the time is proper (9am or whatever). > FreeBSD boots up. It has the CST timezone installed, so it interprets the > time at, like, 2am or something. > > The question is (and I know this is an easy hack, humour me): is this the > intended behaviour? > > If I was just running FreeBSD, this would be fine, but i'm not... I know I > can always hack out the timezone stuff, or just install GMT... > > Am I making any sense? The BETA seems to make the assumption that everyone's cmos clock is set to GMT. touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock will fixit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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