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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:48:37 -0400
From:      wc_fbsd@xxiii.com
To:        "Steve Douville" <fbsd@douville.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Server time doesn't want to stay set (help!)
Message-ID:  <6.2.5.6.2.20060403134551.033c3648@xxiii.com>
In-Reply-To: <1c6901c6572c$1c426a50$d701a8c0@sdouvilnonq1>
References:  <1c6901c6572c$1c426a50$d701a8c0@sdouvilnonq1>

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At 10:37 AM 4/3/2006, Steve Douville wrote:
>My server time is off by exactly 4 hours. (EDT) I've reset it at the 
>BIOS level, only to have it changed somehow during the boot process. 
>I've tried  setting and resetting it through sysinstall, but nothing helps.

This sounds like an issue of the bios clock being set to UTC/GMT 
rather than local time.  If you're bios is set to the actual local 
time, then you need the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock  present.  If it's 
set to universal time, make sure there is no such file.

    -Wayne




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