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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:42:18 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Agus Hariadi <agushariadi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System date time
Message-ID:  <20020126104218.D24296@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020125152249.55163.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com>; from agushariadi@yahoo.com on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0800
References:  <20020125152249.55163.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com>

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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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