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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.uni-bielefeld.de!Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.de!torsten From: torsten@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.de (Torsten Kasch) Subject: Re: novice questions Sender: news@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator) Message-ID: <1992Oct13.191402.16283@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 19:14:02 GMT References: <q26-wc+@engin.umich.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: efeu.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet Lines: 29 In article <q26-wc+@engin.umich.edu>, krueger@engin.umich.edu (Erick Krueger) writes: |> Sorry about the upcoming 'novice' questions, but here goes: |> |> 1 - I am trying to get the time set correctly. I have used the date |> command to set it. Each time I do, it stays correct until I reboot |> at which time the time is shifted ahead by an hour. I then found the |> localtime link, which appeared to be pointing to the currect timezone, |> so I changed that to Eastern. Now it is off by 4 hours. If I set it |> to 3 am, and reboot. It now says it's 7. Do you have the sources installed. If so, you may try to edit the config file for your kernel. I changed the line which reads timezone 8 dst into timezone 1 dst (or was it -1 ??), rebuilt the kernel and after rebooting 'date' displayed the time from my hardware clock. Hope this helps, Torsten --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- \ Torsten Kasch | Technical Computer Science / \ Office: M4-128 | University of Bielefeld / | Phone: +49 521 106 2921 | Postfach 8640 | / FAX: +49 521 106 6328 | 4800 Bielefeld 1 \ / torsten@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de | - GERMANY - \ --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------