Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:41:49 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Gilbert Cao <hika@bsdmon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incorrect kernel time on laptop boot Message-ID: <20070118184149.GC8400@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <23251.82.226.60.41.1169109343.squirrel@bigfugu.bsdmon.com> References: <23251.82.226.60.41.1169109343.squirrel@bigfugu.bsdmon.com>
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:35:43AM +0100, Gilbert Cao wrote: > > Hi the list, > > I currently experienced a problem with my Sony Vaio VGN-FE31B laptop. > Each time I boot, the kernel time seems to be set with the wrong date time. > When I poweroff the machine, wait for some minutes and reboot again, the > kernel time is set with a few seconds after the "wrong" time on shutdown. If you're dual-booting with Windows, the cause is that Windows will set the BIOS to wall-time, while FreeBSD sets the BIOS to UTC. One way to fix this is to run tzsetup and set FreeBSD to run with wall-time. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?
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