> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:
> 
> > ok, this has gone far enough. i'm definitely in +2h00 gmt and i've linked
> > the local time file in etc to johannesburg, south africa, but the unix
> > insists it is 19hoo here when it's actually only 17h00.
> >
> > any ideas on how to force it to do what apple's nice little date and time
> > cdev will do?
> 
> Make sure you're using a current booter, and look under booting options.
> There's an option called GMT Bias.  Use that to compensate.  Set it for
> +120 (minutes)

For the rest of us, what's the formula: should GMT bias reflect
the correct number of minutes from GMT, or the number of minutes
that NetBSD's time is off by?

For example, my machine gives the time one hour ahead, and I'm
on US Eastern time. (Yes, location and time are set properly on
the Mac.)
-- 
Aaron Mansheim, MS exp '97, Computational Sciences, Radford University
<mailto:a-manshe@runet.edu> <http://www.runet.edu/~a-manshe/>