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

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Ooops! You're right. I read through his question too quickly. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Owen Berry
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:46 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Can't convince Debian the system clock isn't UTC

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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