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From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Weirdness with system time
Keywords: Mac time <==> A/UX time strangeness
Message-ID: <13621@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 88 22:02:03 GMT
References: <7001@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.apple.com.UUCP (David W. Berry)
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <7001@sigi.Colorado.EDU> grubin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Rick Grubin) writes:
>I've just begun to notice that my clock under MacOS has always been one
>hour behind.  So I would change it to be correct.  Then, when I ran
>A/UX from the Sash partition (internal drive), my UNIX system time is
>now one hour ahead.  So I change that time to be correct.  Then when I
>go back to MacOS, the clock is one hour behind...  A vicious circle.
	Sounds like you need to change "GMT Bias" in SASH.  Because the
Macintosh knows little about time zones and nought about DST, and because
unix uses both heavily, this is an amount to bias the macintosh clock
by.  It was probably correct up until the time DST went into effect.

	David


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