From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 3: 0:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6A237B401; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDA743FA3; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16B0DGQ013122; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:00:13 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16B0CMb013121; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:00:12 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:00:12 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Evans , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries Message-ID: <20030206110012.GA12952@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030206103144.GB12538@nagual.pp.ru> <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message