[Simh] simh-vax NetBSD 4 date wrong host system date correct.

[Carl Lowenstein]

On Dec 20, 2007 10:18 PM, Rob <rob at olg.com> wrote:
> Rick,
> w/in the NetBSD environment, you can fix this by:
>
> 1) change the timezone link.  (from memory), change the /etc/localtime
>    link to point to a different timezone (or you could generate your
>    own).  I think you want /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT.
>
> Or, if you wanted to use UTC for some reason, the following options
> are also available:
>
> 2) edit the timezone variable in kernel configuration using config(8)
>    (simply specify the correction in minutes).  Useful if you are
>    using a generic kernel.
>
> 3) rebuild the kernel using a custom timezone offset same as above
>    but if you are building your own kernel anyway, no extra effort.
>

I think that the real point is that the SIMH environment is reading
the host clock in CST and passing it to the simulated VAX clock as if
it were UTC.

    carl
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