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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: Lost an hour?
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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 16:11:26 GMT
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sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes:

>In article <BRI.93May4114754@wilbur.mit.edu> bri@athena.mit.edu (brian d. carlstrom) writes:
>>In article <1s5p9r$qs1@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes:
>>
>>   Hmm.  My system lost an hour last night.
>>
>>   -John
>>
>>yeah 386bsd did the right thing for daylight savings, 
>>but last week sometime, lost an hour over night. i thought
>>it was a hiesenbug, but others have had it?
>>
>>-bri
>>
>>--
>>
>>Brian D. Carlstrom	bri@mit.edu
>>Programmer and System Administrator
>>M.I.T. Flight Transportation Laboratry

>  I just noticed this morning that my machine (in the EDT time zone)
>similarly recently lost that same hour....  Hmm... maybe if we
>add up all these lost hours; we can find the time to get some more
>work done, yeah - that's it.. :-)

>	- Dave Rivers -
>-- 
>UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express

This is due to the first patch in the patchkit patching clock.c (I dont
remember the exact number). For me, uncommenting it works. Disadvantage:
in the bios you have to keep the time it is without dst being active.
If you are using other os's as well, you might want to change
the variables in clock.c that mark the start and end of dst. You can
also install Andrew Chernov's hacked date(1). It was posted some time ago.

-Guido