From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 14:03:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1330316A41C for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:03:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A9E43D53 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:03:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-37-29.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.37.29]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0626123A90; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:01:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ED612B0A4; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:03:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurystheus.local ([192.168.1.67]) by localhost (eurystheus.locaL [192.168.1.67]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13277-02; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E8C12B09A; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42D27C0C.1020706@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:02:52 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren References: <200507111334.36996.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200507111334.36996.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time not wanting to change X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:03:17 -0000 Warren wrote: > im running FreeBSD5.4-STABLE > > For some damn reason my Clock in KDE reads the correct time but yet my system > base time when doing a uname -a outputs to UTC time and not AEST. i have run > rdate and other programs and not one of them manages to fix the time, i even > checked BIOS, i even (gasp) stuck a windows hdd in this machine and it ran > the correct time. > > So my question is .. why wont it change the time and what is there that i can > use to force it to use the correct time. You can change the timezone with 'tzsetup' and time and date with the 'date' command, see manpage for more information. The time and date shown by 'uname -a' is the time where the kernel was built. It's a fixed string in the binary. It won't change unless you won't recompile your kernel. Björn