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Subject: Re: date error
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VMware maintains separated clocks from the host system and any other VMware 
system running. Just ntpdate it and you'll be all set. (If I remember right, 
you can set the time in the software "bios", you have to get into it when the 
VMware session starts, you'll see an option to hit a key).

Ryan McIntosh
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On Friday 06 May 2005 9:27 am, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-stable under VMware Workstation 5.
>
> When I run date it replys "Sat May  6 09:19:53 EDT 2000"
>
> Now everything is ok except it's Fri 2005.  When I check the
> clock on the windows side it reports the year correctly.
>
> Anybody know why BSD thinks it's 5 years earlier???
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
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