From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 1 13:32:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA25385 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:32:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA25370 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA25411; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:31:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Thomas David Rivers cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA, timezone and the PC clock... In-Reply-To: <199701011311.IAA04827@lakes.water.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Ok - > > In previous installs; when setting the timezone, it always asked > if my PCs clock was UTC (Greenwich mean time) or local time. > > Apparently, in 2.2-BETA that adjustment is no longer made, and > UTC is assumed. > > My machine's clock is localtime (I just verified it in the setup), and > although my /etc/localtime has the correct timezone for me (EST) - > the values are off by 5 hours. > > Has adjtime "gone away" for 2.2? Or, is this just an install problem? I'm not sure what the problem with sysinstall is... but if you run 'touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock' it will convert from using UTC to local time... hope this helps... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)