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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:00:12 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        phk@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries
Message-ID:  <20030206110012.GA12952@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030206103144.GB12538@nagual.pp.ru> <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:44:29 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> Think diskless NFS, think MD(4) based root, think...

They are read-only at this rc stage, so something could be damaged are
access times only.

> I avoid it entirely by using UTC time in my RTC, but this is not an
> option for machines which have to boot broken-as-designed OSs.

Yes, the main reason not running BIOS clock at UTC is other OSes like M$ 
ones installed in the same machine.

> I don't know if modern bios's know about timezones and DST, I've
> seen some that has setup functions for it, but I don't know
> if there is any way to find the information they store and I don't
> think such features are widespread.

I saw this too, but it is totally useless, even M$ can't handle such 
BIOSes.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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