On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 jbyler@MIT.EDU wrote:

Date gives me: Tue Oct 29 15:57:13 PST 1996
But its      : Wed Oct 30 23:00:53 PST 1996

So I would also like an anwser to this question... :-)

> I know this has come up before, but I don't think it was ever fully
> resolved.  Sorry if it ought to be a FAQ, but it isn't :-)
>
> Here's my situation.  The clock is set correctly in MacOS.  My
> location is also set correctly in the MacOS Map control panel.  And I
> have put a link to the correct time zone in /etc/localtime.  Given
> this situation, the unix system clock (output of 'date'; timestamps on
> files) is several hours off.  If I point /etc/localtime at
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC or .../GMT then 'date' gives the correct time,
> but marks it as GMT, not EDT.  I suppose I could just leave
> /etc/localtime pointing at UTC, but that seems like a kludge solution.
> I have heard that there is a compile-time kernel variable related to
> all this, but I have also heard that this variable is obsolete.  And
> in fact, it doesn't appear in the kernel configuration files.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance!
>
> -Jesse
>

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