> "I suspect what's happening is the motherboard clock is set in > the future, you are formatting venti based on that time, and then later > firing up timesync which interprets the RTC as local time. If your RTC is > set to UTC and you're in the western hemisphere, the RTC clock will be > ahead of your local time." > > > ... it's kindofa bummer that apparently I can't setup fossil+venti during > the plan 9 install process without hosing up venti when I change my > timezone appropriately to get the correct time on the machine... > > So I guess I either: > > * keep the machine on UTC, which allows me to install fossil+venti > during installation >
; man timesync TIMESYNC(8) TIMESYNC(8) [...] -L used with -r to indicate the real time clock is in local time rather than GMT. This is useful on PCs that also run the Windows OS. - erik