From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 1 18:01:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA08191 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:01:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA08182 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA07995; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:00:47 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:00 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01509; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 20:16:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA08809; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 20:19:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 20:19:50 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199701020119.UAA08809@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers, ponds!resnet.uoregon.edu!gurney_j Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA, timezone and the PC clock... Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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... I'm guessing that the question just went missing from sysinstall... Should it have? - Dave R. -