On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British > Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I > selected yes to "Set Hardware Clock to GMT", Debian would be an hour > out.
The hardware clock should always be set to UTC (formerly GMT). Then you should select the appropriate timezone (e.g. Europe/London). (Consider a machine which is being used by people in different countries; the machine has a default timezone, but each user can set a session timezone to suit his own location: [EMAIL PROTECTED] export TZ=Australia/Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] date Wed Oct 8 15:38:15 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] unset TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] date Wed Oct 8 06:38:25 BST 2003 The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware clock. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man; But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." James 1:13,14 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]