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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:09:19 +0100
From:      J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time
Message-ID:  <20000404140919.A6969@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000404104236.B310@lpthe.jussieu.fr>; from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:42:36AM %2B0200
References:  <200004031510.LAB21697@radagast.wizard.net> <XFMail.000403203437.cwass99@home.com> <20000404104236.B310@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:42:36AM +0200, Michel TALON wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Colin wrote:
> >      Had you booted the Win side first, then the FreeBSD side, you would have
> > seen FreeBSD trying to move the clock ahead "2" hours.  It knows it hasn't moved
> > the time ahead yet so it adds 1 hour to the current BIOS time, which had
> > already been moved ahead by the previous OS boot.
> >      You'll see this behaviour on any dual boot system.
> > 
> 
> I have observed exactly the opposite. I think i installed my laptop
> saying that the correct time was on the cmos clock. Then when i 
> booted freebsd, no time adjustment was done. After that i booted Win
> who adjusted the cmos clock. Rebooting freebsd, the time was correct.
> So all this depends how you have installed freebsd. Unfortunately
> i have not been able to find the command line tool to adjust this.


IIRC, i tried using ntpdate, and that did it pretty easily.

> 
> -- 
> 
> Michel TALON
> 
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