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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:21:35 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
To:        spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why can't i turn off fast_time?
Message-ID:  <20070228091415.D1689@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
In-Reply-To: <45E4B495.8000503@emailrob.com>
References:  <45E4B495.8000503@emailrob.com>

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, spellberg_robert wrote:

> greetings, all ---
>
> all i want is
>  to be able to set my boxes to utc, with no fast_time, and
>  to have my apps and all of the other apps agree on what the clock says,
>  at --all-- times.

The FreeBSD servers here are all UTC. To do this, all I did was made sure 
the BIOS clock was set to UTC and move the file /etc/localtime to /root 
(or somewhere outside /etc). At this time, the server doesn't use the 
localtime binary and defaults to UTC.



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