On 02.10.06 23:13, Thomas A. Anderson wrote: > After re-locating to Peru I wanted to adjust the time zone of my debian box > because all e-mails sent from root have a wrong time stamp. > > hwclock > Mon 02 Oct 2006 11:11:29 PM PET -0.847720 seconds
that's stores in your hardware clock, that's not system time. > gives me the correct local time. > > date > Mon Oct 2 16:12:09 PET 2006 > is wrong even though the timezone has been correctly set up with tzconfig > > tzconfig > Your current time zone is set to America/Lima > > Why is date still showing a wrong time? because you did not set system time. try hwcloch --hctosys btw, do you have set UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS? if so, maybe the hardware clock is set to your local time, but system thinks that is is the UTC, so adds the timezone difference to it. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
