Re: [9fans] fs sntp - GMT or localtime?

[David Bulkow <dbulkow@sw.stratus.com>]

nigel@9fs.org wrote:

> The date is local time I think.
>
> You need to set
>
> /sys/src/fs/port/time.c:/^} timezone/
>
>  to match where you live. What does it say?

The timezone is 5*60 and dsttime is 1, which makes sense for my location.

I just finished an experiment which seems to indicate that the fileserver
expects to be set to GMT/UTC.

- set fileserver to "local time"
- boot a terminal

The terminal time is now 6 hours BEFORE local time.  Once timesync gets
sync'ed up, the terminal time jumps back to local time.

- set fileserver to sntp time (6 hours forward)
- boot a terminal

The terminal time now matches local time.  Timesync, once sync'ed, also
provides local time.

With this test information and another perusal of the sources, I am now see
the fileserver "date" command reports time without a timezone translation.  I
also determined that the terminal sets its time based on the access time of
'#s/boot', which matches my read of the code, as the fs will use timezone when
setting access times.  Perhaps "date" should reflect the timezone.