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From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@nev...
Subject: [9fans] Date and time..
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:59:07 -0400

The terminal and cpuserver kernels try to set the time when booting,
and the code in devcons.c only allows the time to be set once,
so if the time is set incorrectly when booting you can't fix it
until you're running a modified kernel which
allows >1 writes to /dev/time.

	Steve

Ish Rattan wrote:
> Plan9 terminal (standalone from CD).
> 
> It comes out that
> 
> cp /adm/timezone/US_Michigan /adm/timezone/local
> 
> has no effect. Date command shows +8 hours. Is there a way to
> roll the time back!
> 
> - ishwar
>