On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> ok, this has gone far enough. i'm definitely in +2h00 gmt and i've linked
> the local time file in etc to johannesburg, south africa, but the unix
> insists it is 19hoo here when it's actually only 17h00.
>
> any ideas on how to force it to do what apple's nice little date and time
> cdev will do?

Make sure you're using a current booter, and look under booting options.
There's an option called GMT Bias.  Use that to compensate.  Set it for
+120 (minutes)

Hope that helps,

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