Okay while we're talking about the RTC_OFFSET...

I live in the Central TZ (CST6), I have my localtime linked properly to   
central.  If I want my hardware clock to be set to proper local time,   
like when I reboot into MSwindow, I have to make RTC_OFFSET=300 instead   
of 360 (60*6) which I would have expected.

I've just come to know this and don't think about it, much, but I am   
curious why this is?

BTW, I've had to do this on every NetBSD i386 system I've installed, so   
it not machine specific.

jam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Badura [mailto:bad@oreilly.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 4:36 PM
> To: Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl; John A. Maier
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: time isnt right.....
>
>
>
> Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl (Reinoud Koornstra) writes:
> >I changed now several times my time in the bios.
> >Then i booted netbsd and set the right date and time with "date"
> >However, everytime i boot netbsd again, even if the bios
> time is correct,
> >the netbsd time isnt correct....
>
> I assume your CMOS clock is using local time instead of UTC.  Compile
> a kernel with the appropriate RTC_OFFSET configured.
> options(4) explains
> RTC_OFFSET.
>
> >Oh yes and i see PDT with the time zone.
> >But i have CET time zone. How to change that?
>
> rm -f /etc/localtime; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/MET /etc/localtime
> --
> Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org
>
> 	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
> 	-- Ralf Schuettau (after looking at a particular piece of code)
>