In message <200007150334.XAA23544@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>der Mouse writes

>Then your clock is wrong - or at least, your kernel is wrong for your
>clock conventions.  If /etc/localtime isn't there, the OS takes you to
>be running in GMT.  If that displays the correct local time, then your
>hardware is set to local time but the kernel is assuming it's set to
>GMT.  

Didn't the poster from Jedi Knight sa he just switch this
machine from M$ to NetBSD? That'd fit the description perfectly.

As Mouse says, the right solution is to run your hardware clock in
GMT (or UTC). Anything else leads to confusion and disaster, let alone
the abomination of changing localtime.


[*] there seems to be some dispute whether they are more closely
    related to gnomes, or maxwellian daemons.