From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 11:11:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA24334 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper22a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA24327 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA02410; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:10:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:10:59 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Timothy Brown cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timezone stuff (2.2-BETA) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------