From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 15 12:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-207.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051B937B419 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 12:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBFKrpH35766; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:53:51 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:53:28 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jim Persinger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time Message-ID: <20011216095328.A35741@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20011215133235.33672.qmail@web12307.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: <20011215133235.33672.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>; from jpersinger309@yahoo.com on Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -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 Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -0800, Jim Persinger wrote: [...] > I log into FreeBSD and when running the command - > date, I get: > > Sat Dec 15 09:28:45 GMT 2001 > > which is the correct date and time. > Are you sure? That looks like GMT time to me. You need to go to /usr/share/zoneinfo and copy the appropriate timezone file to /etc/localtime. *Then* use the 'date' command to check what your local time is, and set it appropriately. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message