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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:41:17 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: timezone bug?
Message-ID:  <20021211014117.GB66014@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10212110330520.108108-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
References:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10212110330520.108108-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:33:35AM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I wonder if this is a bug in the tzsetup system...
> I set my timezone and everything works fine although it says EEST when I
> am used to see GMT+2.
> But the main problem is that when I set the timezone then 2 hours are
> substracted from my bios clock after I use ntpdate and operating system 
> shows correct time by adding 2 hours. Now this is not a big problem if my
> computer clock is wrong normally but I sometimes boot to windoze and it
> shows 2 hours early =) everytime I boot to FreeBSD and back to Windoze.
> 
> What do you say? this is a bug or? How do I prevent this from happening
> all the time?
> 
Windows does not understand the concept of a system clock set to
GMT...at least as far as I know.

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Regards
   Cliff Sarginson 
   The Netherlands

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