From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:04:34 -0500 From: William Josephson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mk surprises me Message-ID: <20020328060434.A31904@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <200203280801.g2S817U21452@cbe.ericsson.se> <200203281050.g2SAoxx02298@copernicus.cs.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200203281050.g2SAoxx02298@copernicus.cs.utwente.nl>; from Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6efc89e2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Axel Belinfante wrote: > remade the first f1, which therefore was a quite a bit newer than > the hdr.h that I 'updated' using touch, to be one hour minus some > minutes older than the remade f1. > Essentially, the laptop multiboots plan 9, linux, windows98 and nt, > and I have not yet been able to get a 'stable' clock. In my experience, this is invariable due to confusion over whether or not the BIOS is storing time in GMT or the local TZ. It used to be a kernel configuration option for Linux, at least. It is best to choose the convention of the most recalcitrant system -- probably 98 or NT in your case :-/ -WJ