From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 12:06:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22294 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22253 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id NAA29375; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:06:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <32501A2A.4CEF@Colorado.EDU> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:06:18 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Nugent CC: FreeBSD-questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Timezone References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Nugent wrote: > > Here's a curley one. > > Currently, my FreeBSD system runs without timezones, since the > CMOS clock is local time. This seems to work fine in most > respects (internally) until we start interacting with the outside > world. For example, the timezone on this email is probably +0000, > which is incorrect. And another effect is that a network > date/time ntp corrector I went to install today is also the > expected 10 hours wrong. > > Yes, I know how to install the correct timzone (just create the > link). But the problem is that since FreeBSD isn't the only OS I > run, I don't really want to have to change the CMOS time every > time I change operating systems where the CMOS is expected to be > local time. > > Is there a happy medium? Linux, for example, had no problem with > this. > > I'm running FreeBSD-(almost)-current, if that helps. > > Regards, > David > > David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia > Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet > davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn You might want to read the adjkerntz(8) man page. I have it working at home, but I'm not there now, so I can't check what I have in my /etc/rc file. Let me know if you need me to post the settings I'm using at home (it'll probably take me a few days though). -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \