Invalid time in realtime clock
Jim Bryant
jbryant at democrats.com
Sat Sep 20 15:32:38 PDT 2003
EDT is UTC-4, don't quote me on this, but I think Iraq would be UTC+4
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:27:46 -0400 (EDT)
>Kim Culhan <fbsd_stable1 at w8hd.org> wrote:
>
>KC> This is 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #9: Fri Sep 19 20:32:15
>KC> EDT 2003
>
> I'm not sure of the relationship between EDT and UTC.
>
>KC> The system time returned by date(1) is advanced 4 hours from the
>KC> correct time.
>
> I'm guessing EDT is four hours ahead of UTC.
>
>KC> The CMOS clock is set to local time and appears correct.
>
> So is there a /etc/wall_cmos_clock file ? If not and you intend
>to keep your CMOS clock on local time then you will need to touch this
>file and run adjkerntz -i as root. The system clock is expected to be
>running on UTC.
>
> See man adjkerntz for the gory details.
>
>
>
jim
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