>>where's d4time?  certainly not in pkgsrc.  :)
>
>Same place(s) as most Windows freeware/shareware - look somewhere like 
>http://www.winfiles.com

you say that as if...i should have known it.  :)

>>and...freebsd (and solaris) have the capability of leaving the cmos
>>clock in "local wall clock time".  now *obviously* i'd like to leave
>>my cmos clock in utc, but windows won't do that.  is there any
>>interest in a port of the freebsd clock fudge mechanism to netbsd?
>
>I thought someone in this thread mentioned that was already in there. Oh 
>yeah - they redirected their reply to port-i386...
>
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2000/07/15/0002.html
>
>It's called RTC_OFFSET.

i was under the impression that that was not the same.  can i use that
*and* adjust it randomly over the uptime of the machine?  i sort of
got the impression that i t was consulted only at boot time and that
i'd need two kernels for one year (to cope with dst).

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