Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

[John Soros <sorosj@gmail.com>]

yep, i get exactly the same:
plan9:
% date
Thu Aug 28 23:40:17 CET 2008
Linux host:
$ date
Thu Aug 28 20:06:02 CEST 2008
even the time difference seems to be the same. strange!

rgds
John

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:32 -0500
"Alex Lee" <alexlee@uchicago.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > this is weird. So, to recap, your timezone is set correctly, and yet
> > you are four hours off.
> >
> > A useful thing to do is cat /dev/time and see how it changes.
> >
> > The time from lguest is simple: you read a 64-bit # which is time.
> > It's just like Xen that way.
> >
> > Also, try this to test another issue:
> >
> > date && sleep 60 && date
> >
> > Two things: should take 60 seconds by the watch and the two dates
> > should report 60 seconds apart.
> >
> > Do they?
> >
> > ron
>
> I've doublechecked the timezone setting, and it appears to be correct.
> The 'date' test seems to work fine:
>
> # date && sleep 60 && date
> Thu Aug 28 15:52:19 CDT 2008
> Thu Aug 28 15:53:19 CDT 2008
>
> Within a second of one another, I ran:
>
> lguest: cat /dev/time
>  1219956674   1219956674748050432   1219956674748050432            4294967296
> host: date +%s
> 1219943774
>
> So lguest is 12900 seconds ahead (= 215 minutes, = 3 hrs 35 minutes).
> John, are you getting the same?
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
>