Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:40:42 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0511261611201.27754@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051126150622.0843d3e0@lariat.org> References: <200511260118.SAA20596@lariat.net> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0511251816200.27754@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu> <6.2.5.6.2.20051126150622.0843d3e0@lariat.org>
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What is the output of date vs date -u on your system? What's the value of machdep.adjkerntz ? Is /etc/localtime intact? Does anything change if you rerun tzsetup? On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:20 PM 11/25/2005, Jon Dama wrote: > > >Uh, the problem would be that kernel does not know that the CMOS clock is > >set to the local time. Standard practice is that the CMOS clock should be > >set to UTC. > > We've never set the CMOS clock to UTC/GMT on any previous version of > FreeBSD, and yet have never seen this behavior. > > By the way, the "date" command does report the correct time. It's cron > that seems to be getting the time wrong. > > --Brett Glass >
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