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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:37:20 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
Cc:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Back to the future...
Message-ID:  <20020116013720.L31328@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0201160955190.16213-100000@downy.etek.chalmers.se>; from b@etek.chalmers.se on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:09:22AM %2B0100
References:  <20020116094936.A1942@tisys.org> <Pine.OSF.4.21.0201160955190.16213-100000@downy.etek.chalmers.se>

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:09:22AM +0100, Magnus B{ckstr|m wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Nils Holland wrote:
> >[...]
> > would then do, for exaple "ls -l /bin/ls", then I would see that ls was
> > installed at 10:42.
> >[...]
> > 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
> 
> This is because the CMOS clock runs on local time,

The CMOS clock will run on any time you want it to. If you are
dual-booting with some other OS that wants the clock to be local time
(*cough*Windoze*cough*) or care what time the BIOS thinks it is, then
yes, it will be local. OTOH, if it is a dedicated FreeBSD machine, set
CMOS to UTC.

So, before we all assume this is Nils's problem, make sure his CMOS
clock is local time. But it is an excellent guess.
-- 
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."

Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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