Hi Moss,
Thanks for your response!
Hi Florian,
You are right! "Hardware clock in UTC time" fix it,
thanks very much!
Best Regards
Nan Xiao
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Nan Xiao <xiaonan830...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Greetings from me! I am a newbie of OpenBSD, and come across
> a confusion of setting date during installation:
>
> I install OpenBSD on VirtualBox and host machine is ArchLinux.
> During setup, it prompts me:
>
>> What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Asia/Singapore]
> Since my host machine is indeed located in Singapore, and I press
> Enter.
>
> Before finish of installation, it prompts me:
>
>> Time appears wrong. Set to 'Sat Aug 19 11:56:42 +08 2017'? [yes]
> My host machine time is actually "Sat Aug 19 11:56:42 +08 2017", so I
> press Enter.
>
> After installation, I use "date" command to check time:
>
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 03:57:14 GMT 2017
>
> The time is correct. But after reboot. The time changes:
>
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 20:01:00 +8 2017
> #date
> Sat Aug 19 12:01:05 UTC 2017
>
> It seems that after rebooting, the OS considers current UTC+8 time as
> the UTC time, and add another 8 hours. I can't figure out what is the
> problem during installation, and can't find similar issue in archives
> of mailing list.
>
> Could anyone give some tips? Thanks very much in advance!
>
> Best Regards
> Nan Xiao
