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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] installation timezone
Date: Mon,  6 Mar 2006 11:24:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <653fba7e69efeca2dac4ccec7542b83b@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82c890d00603060808m7f715882j7035b0281a30726d@mail.gmail.com>

> if the default is gmt i would set up the /adm/timezone/local to gmt by
> default too for new systems. (just for consistency?)

The contents of /adm/timezone/local have no effect on what
time(0) returns during the install.  They only affect what time zone
is used to *print* the time.

They do matter if you're running aux/timesync -L, because -L says
assume that the PC clock is set to local time instead of GMT.
If your local PC clock is set to GMT (e.g., you are not dual-booting
with Windows) then just remove the -L from termrc after installing.
This is not hard.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06 12:20 Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 15:57 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-06 16:08   ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 16:24     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-06 16:35       ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 16:51       ` uriel
2006-03-06 16:57         ` Russ Cox
2006-03-06 16:59         ` Charles Forsyth

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