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From: fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us (Fred Smith)
Subject: Re: Date Bug?
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References: <6ionbf$s3g@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <6iprm7$s4s$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <6iptf6$t8i$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
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Jeffrey Altman (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: In article <6iprm7$s4s$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
: : In article <6ionbf$s3g@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>,
: : Bernie <bfb@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
: : : There's a 4 hour discrepancy between the date in C-Kermit
: : : 6.0.192 and my linux box. Below is the date command issued
: : : from C-Kermit and then the command line.
: : It looks like there might be some confusion about this on your
: : computer. Locally (in the Eastern USA timezone), the Kermit
: : "date" command returns the local date and time.
: This might provide a bit of a clue. Most Unix system have their
: hardware clocks set to GMT instead of local time. All of the
: C runtime library time functions make this assumption.
: It appears that you have your hardware clock set to local time
: and somehow the 'date' command knows this but the C run time functions
: (and therefore C-Kermit) do not.
On my Linux system (mostly stock Red Hat 4.1) both the date command
and kermit's date command return the same value and my clock is set to
local time.
Fred
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