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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.


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