Time discrepancy between ydl 2.2 & OS X

Fri Jun 7 16:24:01 2002

I know YDL 2.1 has an issue if / and /usr are on different partitions.
Something about /etc/localtime being a symlink.

You basically copy what etc/localtime points to into a file called
localtime in /etc.

It should be in the archives within the last could months.
Not sure if that's still a problem in 2.2.

HTH
G. Hannon

Michael Tucker <mtucker@eecs.harvard.edu> on 06/07/2002 03:29:05 PM

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Subject:  Re: Time discrepancy between ydl 2.2 & OS X

Hey,

   Is the difference between the two clocks (to the best of your
knowledge) a multiple of an hour? It may have something to do with how OSX
fiddles with the hardware clock... Under linux you can check it out using
hwclock. I would experiment with that -- it's possible that one OS is
setting the hardware clock to the GMT or something like that, and then
adjusting the time offset based on timezone and the other one is just
reading straight from the hardware clock? Just a guess... good luck.

Mike

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Brier wrote:

> On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 10:24 AM, Etienne Beaule wrote:
>
> > I ran into a weird problem lately...
> >
> > I hosed my OS X with a bad iMate driver (from Griffin) and instead of
> > trying to fix it, I reinstalled everything (after trying all the usual
> > trick to fix it - including zapping the PRAM). After I reinstalled OS X
> > and reconfigured open firmware (so I get to choose which OS I want to
> > boot at startup with yaboot), I noticed that the time displayed in
> > linux is not the same as the time displayed in OS X (one is about 4-5
> > hours off). I checked the time zone, and then reset the time under
> > linux (since it was OK under OS X). Then, after booting into Mac OS X,
> > time was off...
> >
> > I didn't yet find a way to configure the time so both linux and OS X
> > show the right time (it's always one or the other). Anyone has an idea
> > how to fix this?!?
> >
> > ?tienne
> >
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> I have the same problem! It is very annoying, but I have not searched
> for an answer. Just thought I'd let you know that you're not alone.
>
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