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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:14:58 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Seth Murray <smurray@comboard.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with time zone adjustment (FBSD4.6)
Message-ID:  <20020819081458.GB7443@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <36B17878-B338-11D6-BB6A-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com>
References:  <36B17878-B338-11D6-BB6A-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com>

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:55:07PM -0700, Seth Murray wrote:
> Just installed 4.6 on a new server. CMOS clock is set to UTC. I am in 
> Pacific Time zone, so should be 7 hours behind, but tzsetup adjusted local 
> time to show 7 hours AHEAD of UTC.

Hmmm... Seems like your clock is on holiday in Perth, Australia.  So,
how does the output of

   date
   date -u

compare with your wall clock time?  Is the timezone given in the first
command "PDT"?  Does:

   setenv TZ "America/Los_Angeles"

make things more sane?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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