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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Real Time Clock must be GMT? Date: 20 Apr 96 09:11:05 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 31 Message-ID: <arog.829991465@BIX.com> References: <4kiq40$8e9@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com Axel, Use "apropos cmos" to find the man pages for the cmos clock. Basically, if a zero length file with the correct name is in /etc, BSD will use the value in the cmos as the local time of day. Sorry... I'm not booted to BSD at the moment or I'd provide the correct name for that file... and in the state I'm in I Don't Trust my core memory to have the proper info stored in it's little beads. Alan Ogden arog@BIX.com axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) writes: >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) >Many thanks in advance, > Axel Thimm.