[TriLUG] Local Time Zone won't get off UTC

[Brian Henning]

Ahhhhhhhhhh...

Thanks.  Turns out the hardware clock thought it was UTC, but was set in 
EST (i.e. it thought right now was 2:40 PM UTC)..  So after doing...
% hwclock --local --set --date="Mon 21 Mar 2005 02:40:00 PM EST"
% hwclock --hctosys
...then opening up the Adjust Date & Time... dialog in kclock and simply 
clicking Ok, and finally closing and reopening gaim, my instant messages 
now carry correct timestamps.  I'll have to see if this mail comes back 
to me stamped correctly or not, but I think it should.

Thanks a lot everyone!

Cheers,
~Brian


Alan Porter wrote:
> Randall Barlow wrote:
> 
>> Check in you /etc/rc.conf file.  There should be a setting about this 
>> in there.  It's probably set to UTC when it should be set to "local".  
>> HTH!
> 
> 
>  From "man tzsetup":
> 
>   The Debian GNU/Linux system gains its knowledge of this setting from the
>   file /etc/default/rcS.  This file  contains  either  the  line  UTC=yes,
>   which  indicates  that  the hardware clock is set to UTC, or it contains
>   the line UTC=no, which declares the hardware clock is set to Local Time.
>   If  these  setting  are correct, and the hardware clock is truely set as
>   indicated, then configuring the proper timezone  for  the  machine  will
>   cause  the  proper  date  and time to be displayed. If these are not set
>   correctly, the the reported time will be quite incorrect. See hwclock(8)
>   for more details on this topic.
> 
> So on your Debian system, you need to look at /etc/default/rcS and not
> /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
>