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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!heist.demon.co.uk From: Iain Baird <iain@heist.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Real Time Clock must be GMT? Date: 12 Apr 1996 04:05:54 +0100 Organization: Home Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4kkhai$20q@heist.demon.co.uk> References: <4kiq40$8e9@fu-berlin.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: heist.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Mail2News-Path: heist.demon.co.uk Axel Thimm (axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de) wrote: : Hello, : my PC is hosting both freebsd and DOS. DOS is using the Real Time Clock : as the local time, while freebsd is adding a difference of two hours, as : if it is assuming that the RT clock is running on GMT. Is there a way to : tell freebsd to use the RT clock with any offset? (I hope this is no : FAQ, if it is, please point me to the right FAQ, thanks and sorry) Try this (as root): % touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock The existence of this file tells FreeBSD that the CMOS clock is set to local time. iain