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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Jim Persinger wrote:

> Greetings -
>
> I have a time issue. It looks like its set to pacific
> standard time, and I'm in eastern. The BIOS is set to
> the correct time, but when email comes in to the user,
> its 4 hours behind.
>
> I log into FreeBSD and when running the command  -
> date, I get:
>
> Sat Dec 15 09:28:45 GMT 2001

your timezone on the machine is set to GMT, ruffly 4 hours ahead of where
you are.

you will want to set your timezone to EST, with tzsetup(8). it's fast, and
fairly painless.

> which is the correct date and time.
>
> So what do I need to change to make the time the
> correct time?

set your timezone to the correct one. you will probably have to fix the
date on the machine again, with date(1).

hope this helps.

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