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- From: c23jwd@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Jeffrey William Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: amiga clock wrong under NetBSD
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:46:06 GMT
- Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <4dgkoe$1hf@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>
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- Keywords: Clock, NetBSD
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- In article <4ddp6d$5qg@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>,
- 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.
-
- This depends on your concept of 'correct.' NetBSD expects the time
- stored in the battery backed-up clock to be GMT. From this, the
- timezone is used to correctly compute the local time and account for
- daylight savings and whatnot.
-
- If you want to see the time stored in the clock, use 'date -u'. If
- you want the proper time on Unix, set the clock under Unix. This
- will store the proper GMT. What we really need is a timezone-type
- clock for AmigaDOS! I prefer having the clock based on GMT anyways.
-
- A cheap-fix could be to set the NetBSD timezone to GMT. This is
- technically wrong, but shouldn't give a problem unless you are
- connected to a network that knows the 'correct' time.
-
- Anyone have a total package solution?
-
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