On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:10:12 -0700 Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alright, I got it all working now. Not sure how to change the time > zone with config files, so I just used sysinstall to change it to MST > (time zone is arbitrary, but since this is the zone I live in, it's > convenient for me). Then I used ntpdate to sync it, and it's working > well now. > > Thanks for pointing that out to me. I just thought that CET was central > time :) Yes sysinstall's as good a way as any, it'll set your timezone and also let you choose between running with a UTC or local time CMOS clock. Or you can manually tun tzsetup(8) and create (or not) /etc/wall_cmos_clock .. see adjkerntz(8) Take little notice of people opining that you must or even should run CMOS UTC time; that's entirely up to you. I've always preferred local time CMOS clocks personally; sysinstall creates /etc/wall_cmos_clock and cron runs 'adjkerntz -a' halfhourly at times when daylight savings time might come or go in your zone, and that's always worked fine here. The only thing to watch running wall_cmos_clock is that if you boot to single user mode, before /etc/rc has run 'adjkerntz -i' the system will assume CMOS is UTC, so any files then modified show timestamps in UTC (discovered the hard way in Jan 2000 on a box with a broken y2k BIOS :) Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
