> On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: >On 5/4/2025 2:12 PM, Roger via Freedos-user wrote: >> Double checked, FreeDOS running on bare metal, the BIOS is in local >> time. >> >> On Qemu virtualized FreeDOS clients, I've added "qemu -rtc >> base=localtime", so time offset using qemu seems solved there. >> >> I just need to augment the bare metal clients, why and how +4 hours? >> >> Nothing seems to indicate the FreeDOS kernel or freecom know anything >> about time zimes. >> >In fact, DOS doesn't care at all about time and time zones, it takes what >ever is available through the BIOS. And if that BIOS is emulated through a >virtual machine, as it seems to be the case by you using qemu, than your >problem is with qemu or more likely, with your host OS... > > >Ralf
Qemu with time being +4/+5 hours ahead, I was able to resolve using "-rtc base=localtime" options. However, FreeDOS-1.4 on bare metal, the bios is (again) in local time (Dell Optiplex 755), and FreeDOS continues reporting +4/+5 hours ahead. Weird. Roger
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