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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2005 09:38:19 -0400
From:      Ryan McIntosh <rmcintosh@nitemare.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: date error
Message-ID:  <200505060938.19124.rmcintosh@nitemare.net>
In-Reply-To: <200505061327.j46DRgE16378@akiva.homer.att.com>
References:  <200505061327.j46DRgE16378@akiva.homer.att.com>

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VMware maintains separated clocks from the host system and any other VMware 
system running. Just ntpdate it and you'll be all set. (If I remember right, 
you can set the time in the software "bios", you have to get into it when the 
VMware session starts, you'll see an option to hit a key).

Ryan McIntosh
rmcintosh@nitemare.net

On Friday 06 May 2005 9:27 am, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-stable under VMware Workstation 5.
>
> When I run date it replys "Sat May  6 09:19:53 EDT 2000"
>
> Now everything is ok except it's Fri 2005.  When I check the
> clock on the windows side it reports the year correctly.
>
> Anybody know why BSD thinks it's 5 years earlier???
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
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