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Date:      Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:07:26 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT
Message-ID:  <6.2.5.6.2.20051126150622.0843d3e0@lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0511251816200.27754@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech .edu>
References:  <200511260118.SAA20596@lariat.net> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0511251816200.27754@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu>

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At 07:20 PM 11/25/2005, Jon Dama wrote:
 
>Uh, the problem would be that kernel does not know that the CMOS clock is
>set to the local time.  Standard practice is that the CMOS clock should be
>set to UTC.

We've never set the CMOS clock to UTC/GMT on any previous version of
FreeBSD, and yet have never seen this behavior.

By the way, the "date" command does report the correct time. It's cron
that seems to be getting the time wrong.

--Brett Glass




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