This is an old Email recalled from Mutt's old cache here, not sure if it was already sent, likely it was, regardless, send it again. I hate loosing good info!
Roger Qemu, was able to resolve using "-rtc base=localtime" However, my bios is in local time (Dell Optiplex 755), and FreeDOS continues reporting +4/+5 hours ahead. Weird. On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/4/2025 2:12 PM, Roger via Freedos-user wrote: > > Double checked, FreeDOS running on bare metal, the BIOS is in local > > time. > > > > On Qemu virtualized FreeDOS clients, I've added "qemu -rtc > > base=localtime", so time offset using qemu seems solved there. > > > > I just need to augment the bare metal clients, why and how +4 hours? > > > > Nothing seems to indicate the FreeDOS kernel or freecom know anything > > about time zimes. > > > In fact, DOS doesn't care at all about time and time zones, it takes > what ever is available through the BIOS. And if that BIOS is emulated > through a virtual machine, as it seems to be the case by you using qemu, > than your problem is with qemu or more likely, with your host OS... > > > Ralf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
