Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-30 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Doug Barton wrote: > > Suppose, the machine does not have global connectivity at all > > (and it has no local source of exact time) or just at the boot time. > > It still needs to adjust local time, right? > > Your post posited a problem with ntpd not being able to synch the time > because it was

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Suppose, the machine does not have global connectivity at all (and it has no local source of exact time) or just at the boot time. It still needs to adjust local time, right? Your post posited a problem with ntpd not being able to synch the time bec

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:02:11AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, > >loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Standard Time > >has ocurred. There is 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. > >Nothing in a system reacted on the

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:53:56AM -0700, Mike Lempriere wrote: > If you're in the US, you're a week early for the changeover -- your > timezone files need to be corrected. No, I'm not. I'm in Russia. Eugene ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Mike Lempriere
If you're in the US, you're a week early for the changeover -- your timezone files need to be corrected. See: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6163042.html Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:17:44AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > I have dual-boot machine with 7

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote: It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Standard Time has ocurred. There is 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. Nothing in a system reacted on the end of Summer Time period,

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:17:44AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > I have dual-boot machine with 7.0-BETA1 and Windows > > that keeps CMOS time local (there is /etc/wall_cmos_clock also). > > > > It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, > > loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > I have dual-boot machine with 7.0-BETA1 and Windows > that keeps CMOS time local (there is /etc/wall_cmos_clock also). > > It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, > loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Stand

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 03:39:55PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, >loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Standard Time >has ocurred. And we've just switched to Summer time. Based on a quick check, it doesn't look like

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:08:26PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >It would be possible to utilize a bit in the CMOS at boot time >to decide if BIOS time set to Summer time and clear it appropriately, >in theory :-) As long as every OS that you are going to run agrees on the bit and its meaning

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:35:08PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Based on a quick check, it doesn't look like adjkerntz(8) can handle > your situation. In the absence of any independent time source, it's > actually very difficult to handle this situation. In theory, it would > be possible to note

CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Hi! I have dual-boot machine with 7.0-BETA1 and Windows that keeps CMOS time local (there is /etc/wall_cmos_clock also). It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Standard Time has ocurred. There is 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in