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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:09:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Back to the future...
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0201160955190.16213-100000@downy.etek.chalmers.se>
In-Reply-To: <20020116094936.A1942@tisys.org>

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Nils Holland wrote:
>[...]
> would then do, for exaple "ls -l /bin/ls", then I would see that ls was
> installed at 10:42.
>[...]
> So, any ideas what I can do in single user mode so that FreeBSD will make
> sure that "make installworld" installs the world with "sane", i.e. "real"
> timestamps? I guess this has something to do with GMT vs. my local time
> (CET), but I don't know what to do about it, all I know is that if I

This is because the CMOS clock runs on local time, and a newly-woken
kernel has no idea what timezone it's in and assumes UTC.

Easy enough to fix though: Run

    /sbin/adjkerntz -i

first thing when you're in single-user, before making installworld.
This should initialize your timezone offset.

HTH
Magnus


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