Re: [9fans] Date woes

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:16:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC?
>
> are you sure it's not a display issue?  sometimes a double-timezone
> conversion or incorrect timezone conversion can screw up the date.
> fossil uses time(0), which in theory should not conflict.
>

But it is incorrectly setting rtc on exit to the wrong value. So this is
not a display problem. One "time" has the wrong value, /dev/rtc has the
right (until reboot, because wrong is stored---I verified in the BIOS),
and fileserver /dev/time has the wrong.

> > >
> > > 3.  i think timesync(8) may have the information you're looking for.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the tip. I have added it to my profile.
>
> make sure you don't have two timesyncs running!  there
> may be one in /rc/bin/termrc or /rc/bin/cpurc.  two at war
> can be a fatal problem.

I will revue all the scripts till my profile to try to understand what's
going on.

Thanks for the advices!
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