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From: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Volker Hamann)
Subject: Re: bsd has wrong date (-1 day)
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.194447.27456@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 19:44:47 GMT
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In <hg926cy.730393047@unidui> hg926cy@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Cyrus) writes:
>Is it a kown problem?:
>After every boot I have to fix the date to the current.
>It's always one day back.
>But the CMOS has the right date.
>Any hints?
>regards, Ulrich
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>Ulrich Cyrus hg926cy@unidui.uni-duisburg.de
>Fliederstr. 169
>D-47055 Duisburg
>Germany
When I installed 386BSD, I had exactly the same problem, and it remained
after I rebuilt the kernel with the correct timezone (here it is GMT+1).
After searching around in the kernel sources I found a file
dealing with the battery-powered clock. I can't exactly remember where it
was, but I think, it was /usr/sys/sys.386bsd/i386/isa/clock.c
There was a line like
seconds -= seconds * 24 * 60 * 60; /* XXX - don't know why */
- the comment is really there. This line obviously subtracts exactly one
day from the current time.
All I had to do was commenting this line, rebuild the kernel and off we go!
If the file is not the correct one, don't kill me!
Regards,
Volker
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