From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:32:38 +0000 From: "D. Brownlee" Message-ID: <398751CD.DA07B7D7@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] 'date' question Topicbox-Message-UUID: f222fc0e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 My hardware clock is set to GMT, and Glenda's /env/timezone indicates that the 'date' command should be printing EST or EDT; however, glenda's 'date' prints "22:30:03 EDT 2000," when PDT is, by my watch, 15:30:03. It looks as though EDT is 7 hours off! If EDT were correct, I would expect it to be 18:30 when PDT is 15:30. Should the hardware clock actually be set to GMT? Later, D. Brownlee