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different times between the bios and the date command;

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Subject: different times between the bios and the date command;
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:14:53 -0600
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
I've setup my time correctly, I believe; I'm in the US/Central timezone,
and my /etc/localtime is a link to Chicago (which is central time) in
the zoneinfo directory.  The odd thing is that when I run date, I get a
time that is about 6 hours earlier than the actual central time.  E.g,
date returns 16:10:06 CST 2001, and my watch says it is 22:10:03 CST. 
The motherboard bios is set to display time in the US/Central timezone,
just like my watch.  Why is Openbsd setting the time to 6 hours behind
behind my timezone, even when I told it what timezone I am in?

Thanks
robert

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