Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> "I suspect what's happening is the motherboard clock is set in
> the future, you are formatting venti based on that time, and then later
> firing up timesync which interprets the RTC as local time. If your RTC is
> set to UTC and you're in the western hemisphere, the RTC clock will be
> ahead of your local time."
>
>
> ... it's kindofa bummer that apparently I can't setup fossil+venti during
> the plan 9 install process without hosing up venti when I change my
> timezone appropriately to get the correct time on the machine...
>
> So I guess I either:
>
> * keep the machine on UTC, which allows me to install fossil+venti
>   during installation
>

; man timesync

     TIMESYNC(8)                                           TIMESYNC(8)

 [...]

          -L   used with -r to indicate the real time clock is in
               local time rather than GMT.  This is useful on PCs that
               also run the Windows OS.

- erik