Hi all,
Greetings from me! I am a newbie of OpenBSD, and come across
a confusion of setting date during installation:
I install OpenBSD on VirtualBox and host machine is ArchLinux.
During setup, it prompts me:
> What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Asia/Singapore]
Since my host machine is indeed located in Singapore, and I press
Enter.
Before finish of installation, it prompts me:
> Time appears wrong. Set to 'Sat Aug 19 11:56:42 +08 2017'? [yes]
My host machine time is actually "Sat Aug 19 11:56:42 +08 2017", so I
press Enter.
After installation, I use "date" command to check time:
#date
Sat Aug 19 03:57:14 GMT 2017
The time is correct. But after reboot. The time changes:
#date
Sat Aug 19 20:01:00 +8 2017
#date
Sat Aug 19 12:01:05 UTC 2017
It seems that after rebooting, the OS considers current UTC+8 time as
the UTC time, and add another 8 hours. I can't figure out what is the
problem during installation, and can't find similar issue in archives
of mailing list.
Could anyone give some tips? Thanks very much in advance!
Best Regards
Nan Xiao
