Re: different times between the bios and the date command;

[Jan-Uwe Finck <ju.finck@nord-com.net>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:14:53PM -0600, Robert Johannes wrote:
> 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?

Check ls -l /etc/localtime

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