[TriLUG] Can't convince Debian the system clock isn't UTC

[Owen Berry]

No, in Gentoo that is used to set your time zone. Your clock settings,
which includes configuring how your hardware clock is set, are in
/etc/conf.d/clock.

Owen

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:07:57AM -0400, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Not sure how Debian is setup, but in Gentoo:
> 
> rm /etc/localtime
> create a symlink from /etc/localtime -> /path/of/your/timezone
> 
> i also have the ntp service running @ boot to sync up my clock. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Henning
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:01 AM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: [TriLUG] Can't convince Debian the system clock isn't UTC
> 
> Hi Gang,
>    Seems like I had this problem before on a different machine, but the
> posts I found about it (march of 05) aren't helping this time.  Here's
> the skinny:
> 
> Brand new shiny Lenovo T60p, dual-booting XP Pro and Debian Etch.  Works
> beautifully (for the bits I've figured out so far; ati setup was a
> hassle but I conquered it, and the 3D acceleration makes my head spin!)
> except...the clock.
> 
> I'm using KDE for my desktop environment.  The KDE clock applet is set
> to Eastern/New_York, and consistently shows a time four hours slow (XP
> shows correct time).  This seems to indicate that Debian thinks the
> hardware clock is UTC when it is actually local time.  The thing is,
> none of the settings seem to make any difference.  In /etc/defaults/rcS,
> I have "UTC=no" (without quotes of course) and /etc/adjtime contains
> "LOCAL".  Command-line tools such as uptime and top also show the
> four-hour-slow time.
> 
> Further confusing me, I tried changing rcS to contain UTC=yes and
> adjtime to contain UTC, and it made no difference!  The clock still
> reads four hours slow.
> 
> The proof is in the pudding (or the date command, here):
> 
> % date
> Thu Oct  5 07:00:31 EDT 2006
> % date --utc
> Thu Oct  5 11:00:33 EDT 2006
> 
> Clearly the UTC time is actually local time.
> 
> So.. um..  What do I do to fix it?  I've tried Googling for how to
> control whether the hardware clock is local or UTC, and nothing I've
> come up with seems to be useful.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> ~Brian
> 
> 
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