On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:06:11AM -0600, Jason George wrote: > >How large is the "real" offset? What happens if you set the time > >yourself to a value reasonable close to the actual value? > > About 3.5 hrs... The reason I found the bouncing numbers suspect > was that I have a dual-boot XP/OpenBSD laptop for field work. The > time reported from the system clock in XP vs. OpenBSD is always 7 hrs > off, but ntpd converges cleanly on the actual time on that old Dell > Latitude.
XP and all other versions of Windows set the clock to local time, whereas OpenBSD sets it to GMT/UTC. That has less to do with Dell Latitude and more to do with Dell Longitude. You might find some useful info in the archives about getting the two OSs to play together, time-wise. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
