Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 03:01:31 -0400 From: John Garrison <jeg@visi.net> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows vs. FreeBSD: Changing Times Message-ID: <31D231CB.2D83780D@visi.net> References: <Version.32.19990326112256.00f454a0@mail.cybercom.net> <Version.32.19990326112256.00f454a0@mail.cybercom.net> <19990326202726.6129.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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I might add that windows doesn't even change your time correctly. It has already updated my clock for daylight savings time, which isn't here yet. Also it took me from 8:43 pm to 3:00 am. It doesn't take a genius to know that adding or subtracting one hour from 8:43 doesn't give you 3:00. Greg Black wrote: > > For those of you who don't know, Windows will automatically > > change your CMOS clock to reflect the correct time after the time change. > > Or you can do it manually. Either way, that clock needs to be set to the > > correct local time in order for the Windows system time to be reflected > > correctly. > > Yet another reason not to use Windoze. > > > Unfortunately, FreeBSD seems to do an intelligent translation that > > automatically adds one hour to the CMOS time during the Daylight Time > > period. This is all good, except that when Windows sets the clock ahead > > one hour and then FreeBSD adds one hour in software...well, you see where > > this is going. Somebody (Windows or FreeBSD) is going to have the wrong time. > > Well, Windoze is *always* going to have the wrong time. The > *right* time is UTC and local time is derived from that. > > > Is there a simple way around this problem? Can I tell FreeBSD that even > > though we're in Daylight Time that it should take the CMOS clock as the > > current local time? > > Well, since you are asked at FreeBSD install time whether you > set your CMOS clock to wall clock time or to UTC, that's a clue. > Read the man page for adjkerntz to see how FreeBSD handles the > CMOS clock when it's set to local time. (I have no idea if it > works, since I've never been guilty of running a Microsoft OS on > my computers and always run my CMOS clock on UTC.) > > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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