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.

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