Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:30:28 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@democrats.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Kim Culhan <fbsd_stable1@w8hd.org> Subject: Re: Invalid time in realtime clock Message-ID: <3F6CD504.6050005@democrats.com> References: <20030920095825.H15417@w8hd2.w8hd.org> <20030920171848.227a7ce6.steve@sohara.org>
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EDT is UTC-4, don't quote me on this, but I think Iraq would be UTC+4 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:27:46 -0400 (EDT) >Kim Culhan <fbsd_stable1@w8hd.org> 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. > > > jim -- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom..." -- Benito Mussilini, 1932 http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf -- The GOP agrees
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