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From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy1@home.com>
To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Time change
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:27:59 -0500
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On November 1, 2001 10:56 am, Jon Molin wrote:
> date -d
>
> -d dst  Set the kernel's value for daylight saving time.  If dst is non-
>              zero, future calls to gettimeofday(2) will return a
> non-zero for
>              tz_dsttime.
>
> see 'man date'
>
> /Jon
>
> Radhika Sambamurti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am running freebsd 4.4 with Windows 98 on another
> > partition. I am running local (EST) time on Windows and
> > Freebsd. The clock has not adjusted to the new DST. How can
> > i do this?
> >
> > Thx,
> > radhika
> >
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 As an aside, I have the same setup. FreeBSD changed the hour back, and then 
when I booted Windows it also set the hour back. The result was I was keeping 
time somewhere in the prairies (TWO hours back from EST):!

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