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- From: jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell Kesling)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: amiga clock wrong under NetBSD (and Linux)
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 16:41:57 GMT
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- Frederick V. Heitkamp (heitkamp@ibm.net) wrote:
- >Hubert Feyrer (feyrer@rfhs1012.fh.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:
- >: charles thomas (thomas@ORNL.GOV) wrote:
- >: > Just got the prebuilt generic NetBSD 1.1 running on my A3000.
- >: > The date displays a time that's something like 5
- >: > hours off, even when I set the timezone correctly. Time is
- >: > correct when I boot into Amiga O/S.
-
- >I've noticed that Amiga Linux 1.2.13pl4 does the same thing. Odd.
-
- >Fred Heitkamp
-
- When you're running Unix the system clock should be set to GMT.
- While running the Amiga O/S the system clock is set to your local
- time.
-
- The difference between EST and GMT is 5 hours. You should be able
- to get the time to display the same under both operating systems
- by lying to unix and telling it your in GMT (TZ=GMT ?).
-
- John
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