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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set right time zone?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 07:09:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <40u0ql$2jq@overload.lbl.gov> <FN.95Aug17182146@big-brother.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
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In article <FN.95Aug17182146@big-brother.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>,
Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>In article <40u0ql$2jq@overload.lbl.gov> jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes:
|
|$ Here is the sequence:
|$ Please enter the local time using 24 hour style,
|$ 16:30
|$ 2 CMOS clock is set to local time
|$ 7 North and South America
|$ 44 United States
|$ 15 Pacific time
|$ Does 04:30:45 29.7.1992 PDT look reasonable?
|$ 	< Yes >      < No >
|
|i got that problem too.  if you select 'yes', it gets the timezone right
|after the reboot (well, it did on the 3 machines i installed on).

Yeah, I'm sorry to say that tzsetup appears to be somewhat broken in what
it initially reports.  Hopefully this will be fixed in 2.1!
[Right, Garrett? :-)]

						Jordan