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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!amd!netcomsv!netcomsv!netcom.com!genehi From: genehi@netcom.com (Gene Hightower) Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386 Message-ID: <genehiCJwonG.LoI@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <1994Jan18.160650.10175@wkuvx1.wku.edu> <2hi78m$bnu@kult.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <19639@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 02:09:15 GMT Lines: 17 Guy Harris (guy@Auspex.COM) wrote: : Hopefully, nobody in the kernel uses that time zone information; at : least in SunOS 4.x, it's there only for the benefit of pre-SunOS 4.x : binaries. (It's not in the kernel *at all* in SunOS 5.x.) This question was about BSD on an Intel based PC, where the so called "CMOS time" is (often) local time for operating systems such as MS-DOS & OS/2. Lots of people use both DOS and Unix on the same box, so the Unix has to convert that local time to UTC when it boots up. The kernel time zone information is used for this purpose. I run Unix (NetBSD) only, so I keep UTC in the "CMOS time" and I removed the kernel time zone stuff from my config file. -- Gene