Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA, timezone and the PC clock... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970101131929.6728J-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199701011311.IAA04827@lakes.water.net>
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On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > 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... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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