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Subject: Re: why can't i turn off fast_time?
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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.