Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:25:38 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lev Klimin <levanty@mari-el.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd Message-ID: <20031205102538.GB94314@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <81225028343.20031205100219@mari-el.ru> References: <81225028343.20031205100219@mari-el.ru>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:02:19AM +0300, Lev Klimin wrote:
> Good morning!
>=20
> I have 4.9-release. I'm having little problem with time. I live in
> Russia on Moscow-west+00 time. My clock is local. My timezome is
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow.
> To resolve this trouble I see following:
> 1. Say FreeBSD that my clock is local.
> 2. Set timezone.
You mean that the CMOS clock is set to local time? That is only
necessary when you have non-Unix OSes installed on the machine.
The CMOS clock is also known as the BIOS clock -- it operates on
battery independently of the system being up or down, and independent
of whatever OS you're using.
The default setting of the CMOS clock to UTC gives best results -- you
should use that setting unless you have good reason not to.
If your CMOS clock isn't set to UTC, you should have an empty file
called /etc/wall_cmos_clock, and you need to run adjkerntz(8)
occasionally to update the CMOS clock from the kernel clock (which
always runs UTC) -- amongst other things this will deal with changing
the clock at the beginning/end of daylight savings time. This should
be handled automatically via /etc/crontab.
> I used for it /stand/sysinstall. But FreeBSD think that clock is GMT,
> not local.
> Let's now 9:46:03 in Moscow
> #date
> 12:46:03 (MSK)
Try using /usr/sbin/tzsetup to set the timezone -- it will be quite
familiar to you from sysinstall(8).
=20
> #zdump /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow
> /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow Fri Dec 5 12:46:07 2003 MSK
> #diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow
>=20
> Why my FreeDSD work on GMT and not on localtime?
Sounds like CMOS clock is actually running UTC. If you really have to
set it to wall-clcock time, try setting the kernel clcock date/time
correctly using date(1), and then run 'adjkerntz -a' to set the CMOS
clock from the kernel clock. Or you can set the CMOS clock from the
BIOS setup screens.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
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