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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!world!mcgovern From: mcgovern@world.std.com (Brian J McGovern) Subject: IRC, bundled source, and time... Message-ID: <Cs4D86.97I@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 18:12:05 GMT Lines: 21 Quick question from someone who hasn't cared about system time till now... I am running FreeBSD 1.1 on a 486 in which the BIOS clock is set properly. However, if I set localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern... the time is several hours ahead. Do I have to set my BIOS clock to GMT? Or is there another file that I can leave the clock set to local time and still have all the times display properly? And if I do have to set the clock to GMT, could someone give me the offset for EST/EDT? I really hate counting time zones on a globe ;) Secondly, has anyone ported IRC for FreeBSD 1.1 yet? I'm just curious, I haven't looked at the source yet and am pondering how much fun it can be... Thirdly, I was looking at the source on freebsd.cd.rom. Is there anyplace where the "ports" directory has been tar'ed/compressed, or is there a way to do it through FTP? There are some packages I want that have several subdirectories in them, and its a hassle to manually recurse through them. Thanks in advance -Brian