From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 13:42:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drone5.qsi.net.nz (drone5-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CC0337B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 80589 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jan 2002 21:42:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([210.54.19.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Jan 2002 21:42:19 -0000 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PLgIS24476; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:42:18 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:42:18 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Agus Hariadi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System date time Message-ID: <20020126104218.D24296@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020125152249.55163.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020125152249.55163.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com>; from agushariadi@yahoo.com on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0800 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 On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0800, Agus Hariadi wrote: > Hi, > I have one question about date. > why the system date not the same with bios date ? > i have a FreeBSD v. 4.4 with AMD Atlhon 1200 Mhz, the > system display date & time (with date sintax) can't > same with the bios date. Your BIOS time is set UTC (GMT) time. What this means, is that if you ever take your machine out of your current timezone (or if your timezone rule changes), you don't have change your time (you may have to change local timzone files, though). However, you can change the system to set BIOS time to localtime. Check out tzsetup(8). -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message