From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 08:19:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434DF16A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.wanadoo.nl (smtp6.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A53D43FE3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p0917.nas4-asd6.dial.wanadoo.nl [62.234.223.154]) by smtp6.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 13C0C76EC2; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:18:48 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Kim Culhan Message-Id: <20030920171848.227a7ce6.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20030920095825.H15417@w8hd2.w8hd.org> References: <20030920095825.H15417@w8hd2.w8hd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Invalid time in realtime clock X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:19:11 -0000 On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:27:46 -0400 (EDT) Kim Culhan wrote: KC> This is 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #9: Fri Sep 19 20:32:15 KC> EDT 2003 I'm not sure of the relationship between EDT and UTC. KC> The system time returned by date(1) is advanced 4 hours from the KC> correct time. I'm guessing EDT is four hours ahead of UTC. KC> The CMOS clock is set to local time and appears correct. So is there a /etc/wall_cmos_clock file ? If not and you intend to keep your CMOS clock on local time then you will need to touch this file and run adjkerntz -i as root. The system clock is expected to be running on UTC. See man adjkerntz for the gory details. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/