Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:33:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sebestyen Zoltan <szoli@netvisor.hu> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Time zone problems Message-ID: <19990713113309.V21403@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907122206050.11922-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu>; from Sebestyen Zoltan on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:08:07PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907122206050.11922-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu>
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On Monday, 12 July 1999 at 22:08:07 +0200, Sebestyen Zoltan wrote: > Hi, > > I've set up my BIOS clock so that I live in Budapest => GMT + 1 (- 1 > cause of the daylight saving time). Isn't that +1 again? You're currently 2 hours ahead of UTC (not GMT, which is a British time zone corresponding to UTC). > How could I set BSD to handle that correctly? UNIX clocks should be set to UTC. The time zone conversions handle the time for your local time zones, including automatic compensation for DST transitions. > Currently it's one hour ahead of WinNT (OK, I know the FreeBSD is > thousand miles ahead of Win NT :))))) Are you running NT on the same machine? In that case, you'll need the /etc/wall_cmos_clock kludge that Udo suggested. Read adjkerntz(8) for further confusing details. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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