>>For the rest of us, what's the formula: should GMT bias reflect
>>the correct number of minutes from GMT, or the number of minutes
>>that NetBSD's time is off by?
>>
>>For example, my machine gives the time one hour ahead, and I'm
>>on US Eastern time. (Yes, location and time are set properly on
>>the Mac.)
>>--
>>Aaron Mansheim, MS exp '97, Computational Sciences, Radford University
>
>ok, i tried 120 and it told me i was at 9pm when i was at 8am. I set the
>/etc/ file to joburg.za, made sure the time was set right on the mac side,
>set the booter to say i was at +120 gmt (correct) and it still insisted i
>was at 9pm (11 hours ahead). So i've set it to -680 because that was a
>closer approximation to the real time (still 3 hours too far ahead). Is
>there no way under unix to set the time?
>


ok, so if i say date (thetime) to set the time, which i have done, it still
is annoying becos if i reboot the time is messed up again.

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