Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-08 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
>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 Need to follow-up here, just retes

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-08 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
> 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-08 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
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, w

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-04 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
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 F

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-04 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
>> Roger via Freedos-user >> >> However, FreeDOS reports the time as UTC, +4 hours ahead of my local >> time. (EDT local time here.) >> >> FreeDOS time seems hard-coded, and doesn't appear to be adjustable? >> >> Any way to script within FDAUTO.BAT %TIME%-4 ??? >> >> Think I understand "TZ=" is jus

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-04 Thread Omar Yabar via Freedos-user
SET  TZ=EST or TZ=EDT in fdauto.batif you already set a packet driver/odi shim yo can use sntp.exe from mTCP tools, just put: sntp -set 216.239.35.4 (or any ip or name of an sntp server) Volia! your date and time are set correctly, here in Peru we use -5 UTC, we don't have to deal with the crazy

[Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-03 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
I believe most of my computers are using local time at the BIOS level. However, FreeDOS reports the time as UTC, +4 hours ahead of my local time. (EDT local time here.) FreeDOS time seems hard-coded, and doesn't appear to be adjustable? Any way to script within FDAUTO.BAT %TIME%-4 ??? Think I u