From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 0:55:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9106E37B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03808; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:55:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3C453FFE.9040007@owt.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:55:26 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to the future... References: <20020116094936.A1942@tisys.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > > whenever I make world, I seem to have a "time problem" which is a little > disturbing. Here's what happens: > > When I CVSup the latest sources, build them, then build & install a new > kernel, reboot with the new kernel to single user mode, and once I am in > signle user mode, run "make installworld", all the files that get installed > are dated one hour in the future. So, if I did this right now, at 9:42, and > would then do, for exaple "ls -l /bin/ls", then I would see that ls was > installed at 10:42. > > Now, this has caused me some small problems recently. Although the > future-dated world files do work, I have had problems installing some ports > until the time at which world was supposedly installed had past. In other > words, after installing world, I had to wait an hour before I could do > anything else related to building and installing. > > So, any ideas what I can do in single user mode so that FreeBSD will make > sure that "make installworld" installs the world with "sane", i.e. "real" > timestamps? I guess this has something to do with GMT vs. my local time > (CET), but I don't know what to do about it, all I know is that if I > install something in multiuser mode, the time of the installed files gets > set right. This also seems to be true when I first boot to multiuser mode > and then do a "shutdown now" to read single user, but it doesn't seem to > work if I use "boot -s" to get right into single user mode. > > So, any hints anyone? I would look at your clock and timezone setting. You are GMT+1 and that is what your offset is. It is like your system thinks you are running GMT but are running local time and it moves your local time an hour into the future. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message