Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:00:12 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries Message-ID: <20030206110012.GA12952@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030206103144.GB12538@nagual.pp.ru> <1269.1044528269@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:44:29 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote: > > Think diskless NFS, think MD(4) based root, think... They are read-only at this rc stage, so something could be damaged are access times only. > I avoid it entirely by using UTC time in my RTC, but this is not an > option for machines which have to boot broken-as-designed OSs. Yes, the main reason not running BIOS clock at UTC is other OSes like M$ ones installed in the same machine. > I don't know if modern bios's know about timezones and DST, I've > seen some that has setup functions for it, but I don't know > if there is any way to find the information they store and I don't > think such features are widespread. I saw this too, but it is totally useless, even M$ can't handle such BIOSes. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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