Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com> wrote on Sun, 10 Apr 2005
at 07:39:49 -0400 in <87e502b4a3c9292293cf1995e8c56d5a@distal.com>:

> Cc: tech-security@NetBSD.org
> To: netbsd-help@NetBSD.org

Please try to pick one or the other...

>   So, since I'm in EDT, that looks like some sort of error in the 
> timezone
> somewhere in the boot/savecore process.  Hmm.  Oh, I see now.
> It's an error in that /etc/security seems to be running in GMT.  Was
> that purposeful?  It was a little confusing to me:
> 
> % ls -l /dev/*sd0b*
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator      13, 1 Dec 26 14:50 /dev/rsd0b
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator       4, 1 Apr  9 07:01 /dev/sd0b
> %

Generally this happens at boot time (not at /etc/security run time),
if /etc/localtime is a symbolic link to a file in /usr, and /usr has
not yet been mounted, so there is no /etc/localtime and UTC is
assumed. If this is indeed the case, and you care, then remove the
/etc/localtime symlink and make a copy of the file from
/usr/share/zoneinfo.

--jhawk