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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!gs.dfn.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CMOS clock Date: 27 Sep 1995 23:18:48 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <44cik8$pd8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1995Sep21.043117.8707@nosc.mil> <qtfd9co6tkm.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit James C. Hu <jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> wrote: >(1) I seem to recall when I was reading install procedures that it >would be better to set my clock to UTC. I can't seem to find the >reference anymore. Does such a reference exist, or did I hallucinate? >Why would setting the clock to UTC be beneficial? Because the kernel runs UTC internally. Things are naturally easier then, since no conversion is needed at all. (All non-PC Unix machines have a CMOS clock running UTC for the very same reason.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)