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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:47:08 +0100
From:      Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Invalid ps start time values for kernel processes ?
Message-ID:  <20030208184708.GA705@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302081422.h18EMcud028557@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200302081350.33720.paul.koch@statscout.com> <200302081422.h18EMcud028557@lurza.secnetix.de>

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* Oliver Fromme (olli@secnetix.de):

> However, if the CMOS clock runs in local time, then there
> is no way for the kernel to convert it to UTC, because the
> kernel does not know what your local timezone is.  How
> should it know?

NetBSD allows you (when I last looked at it, it was 1.5.something) to
set a kernel variable for the difference between CMOS time and UTC at
compile time. You would then need two kernels to reflect DST.

     --Thomas

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