Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:52:09PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > are taking rtc but correcting it with the timezone (and perhaps the -L), Correction: if "-L", the userland parameter timezone is taken to correct the RTC value. It seems that there is a hiatus (the reason why it was precisely

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:55:32PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Finally if you are running Windows 7 *and* have a recent > hotfix 2800213 installed, you *can* use UTC in RTC by registry > entry RealTimeIsUniversal=1. Or so I am told! Finally, 20+ > years later, microsoft does the right thing when

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:30:03 +0200 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > IIRC, I did not use this Plan9 node since the CET Saving Time switch. > > When verifying a directory listing (fossil) I saw: > > The correct date (time) on the file (I mean the correct time in CEST). > > An incorrect time on the co

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:59:22PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > are you sure that these flags might not be part of the problem? > there is no clear answer to the question, "is rtc clock in local time > or gmt?" > > -r synchronize to the local real time clock, #r/rtc. > >

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Apr 23 12:16:36 EDT 2013, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:16:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC? > > > > are you sure it's not a display issue? sometimes a double-timezone > > conversion or incorre

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:16:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC? > > are you sure it's not a display issue? sometimes a double-timezone > conversion or incorrect timezone conversion can screw up the date. > fossil uses time(0), wh

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC? are you sure it's not a display issue? sometimes a double-timezone conversion or incorrect timezone conversion can screw up the date. fossil uses time(0), which in theory should not conflict. > > > > 3. i think timesync(8) may h

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:34:46AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > is an independent /env for each process group, so it is entirely > possible to have many values on the same system. But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC? > > 3. i think timesync(8) may have the informati

Re: [9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> 1) How can fossil and the system display two different dates? Are they > not using the very same system value? > > 2) Could it be that fossil takes CMOS and then continue on its own or > takes CMOS constantly, while the kernel (?) takes CMOS, then leaves it > alone, correct (wrongly) and counts

[9fans] Date woes

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
I was testing a new version of kerTeX (more changes to my compilation framework---mainly around Windows Interix support) with Plan9 (new version released BTW), and I stumbled once upon on date strange behavior. IIRC, I did not use this Plan9 node since the CET Saving Time switch. When verifying a