Re: SCO 5.0.5/5.0.6 bios clock, time zone and synching

From: John Smith (atarts_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:10:59 GMT

"John DuBois" <spcecdt@deeptht.armory.com> wrote in message
news:3f283a29$0$1095$8eec23a@newsreader.tycho.net...
> In article <8512fc7a.0307292304.70bfe523@posting.google.com>,
> John Smith <atarts@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Does SCO expect the BIOS clock to be set to UTC?
>
> No. All versions of SCO OpenServer and the OSes that led up to it
(including
> all versions of SCO XENIX) expect the RTC (what you're calling the BIOS
clock)
> to be set to the time in the local timezone. This practice has some
> unfortunate aspects to it; it was selected despite that because we expect
> administrators to set the RTC to the current local time using the BIOS,
since
> that's what they do for other OSes.

Okay, I set the RTC to localtime, set up the local timezone correct using
'tz' so I could put in the DST info etc.
All good. Clocks are correct and when NTP polls our time server it gets the
right time.

Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Tomorrow i'll test the DST change overs and see if they work as they should.

Thanks for everyones help on this one.

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