dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> I just installed OpenBSD 3.9 AMD 64-bit version
> on a new AMD computer. This computer is still not
> connected to the internet. I noticed that date was
> printing out times 4 hours earlier than correct for
> /US/East-Indiana.(ie date printed a time of 5am when
> the correct time here is 9am). I catted /etc/localtimezone
> and got about 400 geeky characters. I then did an ls -l
> of /etc/localtimezone which reported a symlink to
> /US/East-Indiana and a file length of 36 characters.
> I then deleted /etc/localtimezone and invoking date
> then returned the correct time.
>
> Can anyone explain this?

Your computer clock is set to local time, not UTC. This is mentioned in
many, many places, including
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#TimeZone.

Joachim