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From: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set right time zone?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 01:21:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: jin@gracie.lbl.gov's message of 17 Aug 1995 00:00:21 GMT

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).