[lug] Superblock in the future?

[Jeff Schroeder]

Marty:

> hwclock = Thu Dec 29 21:47... (which is accurate)
> date = Thu Dec 14:47... 7 hours slow...
>
> Not being familiar with either what does that mean?  How could they
> be different?

7 hours is the difference between MST and UTC.  Your 'date' function is 
localizing the time to whatever you've set as the timezone on your 
computer.  Note the full string, which should be something like this:

Thu Dec 29 21:52:08 MST 2005

Jeff
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