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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kim Culhan <kimc@kim.net>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        Kim Culhan <fbsd_stable1@w8hd.org>
Subject:   Re: Invalid time in realtime clock
Message-ID:  <20030920122345.S15678@w8hd2.w8hd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030920171848.227a7ce6.steve@sohara.org>
References:  <20030920095825.H15417@w8hd2.w8hd.org> <20030920171848.227a7ce6.steve@sohara.org>

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:27:46 -0400 (EDT)
> Kim Culhan <fbsd_stable1@w8hd.org> wrote:

> 	I'm not sure of the relationship between EDT and UTC.

So happens its 4 hours at the moment.

> KC> The CMOS clock is set to local time and appears correct.
>
> 	So is there a  /etc/wall_cmos_clock file ? If not and you intend
> to keep your CMOS clock on local time then you will need to touch this
> file and run adjkerntz -i as root. The system clock is expected to be
> running on UTC.

> 	See man adjkerntz for the gory details.

Ahh.. this is it, thanks muchly :)

While running tzsetup it asks if the CMOS clock is set to
UTC, answering 'No' doesn't touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock arghh..

-kim



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