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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: What time I have? X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Message-ID: <CyDswv.B2y@veda.is> References: <38p7pt$lkf@mars.fb1.fhtw-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:50:54 GMT Lines: 16 s2887@FB1.FHTW-Berlin.DE (Hartwin Rohde) writes: >If I link /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Greenwich or >/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin date displays a time of >clock-time (which I can see in the board setup or in DOS) >plus 8 or 9 hours???? If I link it to >/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT-8 then I get the Berlin local time. >What mistake did I made? None. The 1.1.5.1 distribution kernel was compiled for the wrong timezone. Both 'timezone' and 'dst' have to be set to 0 in the kernel config file, and the kernel rebuilt. You need the kernel sources for this. -- Adam David <adam@veda.is>