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- From: osynw@warp.mhd.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Beginner's problems with 386BSD
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.011712.27704@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 01:17:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.232240.23004@cognos.com> dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul26.174358.29102@coe.montana.edu> osynw@warp.mhd.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
- >>In article <712169547snx@rama.demon.co.uk> steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle) writes:
- >>>4) How do I configure the system for UK local time ? I tried symlinking
- >>> /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB-Eire, but this puts the clock
- >>> about 8 hours ahead.
- >>
- >>I wish someone could tell me how to get my clock correct too. I have tried
- >>various combinations of things, including re-linking the kernel with
- >>the correct offset in the config file [...]
- >
- >Have you tried recompiling from scratch? (You may shudder, but make
- >can't check files that are dependent on compilation flags - of which
- >the offset is one!).
- >--
- >+++BdA Brian de Alwis. Brain on loan to Cognos Inc, Ottawa, Ontario.
- > dealwisb@cognos.com, or bsdealwi@napier.{waterloo.edu,uwaterloo.ca}
- > "Nine out of ten men who tried camels said they preferred women"
-
-
- Yep, I have tried everything I could think of. I removed /usr/share/zoneinfo
- and remade everything from scratch. My machine is still one hour faster
- than my real time clock. I suspect a daylight savings time problem,
- but I am not sure why that would make a difference, because my BIOS
- takes care of that autmatically.
-
- Nate
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