> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul de Weerd > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:40 AM > To: OpenBSD > Subject: Re: timezone anomalies > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:23:07PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > | dual booting with linux these days i am now totally lost. > | seems like the xandros distro picks up the how clock > | but the set /etc/localtime didn't do anything. date > | shows the same as the bios time... > | > | could the linux dualbooters help me set up the system > | so the two os do not fight over time? > | > | what is the proper setup? > | > | bios: UTC > | os: timezone > | > | or > | > | bios: localtime > | os: localtime and pretend i am in a timezone? (ntpd gets crazy > this way) > | > | or > | > | bios: timezone > | os: timezone > > I don't quite understand these three options you give. Both OS and > BIOS should run in UTC. You configure your environment with TZ > which > will default to /etc/localtime. That is, do not explicitly set TZ > and > you get the timezone pointed to by /etc/localtime (should be a > symlink > to /usr/share/zoneinfo/...), export TZ=Europe/Zurich and get the > times > as used in Switzerland. Kernel and NTPd just use UTC. > > Cheers, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
I know at least for windows it wants to set the BIOS time to local time. Not sure how the linux handles it. If you need/want to have the BIOS time set to local time, you can adjust OpenBSD to handle that. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#TimeZone
