2009/8/4 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > do you have something funny bound on /dev?
having said what i said - yes, i realise that a mistaken bind -b means that i was using drawterm's /dev/time, not the host system's. and, oddly, drawterm implements the time file, but doesn't bother to actually get the correct time of day. so not as strange as i thought. cheers erik.