On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:19:50PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > > > If I need my hwclock to UTC then what should be the right way to do that ? > > I have followed "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" and found it has changed the > > local time to > > UTC too. Confused ..... > > Just make sure that the date is set correctly (run "date" and set it > with "date --set="newdate" if it's wrong). Then run > hwclock --utc --systohc > to set the hardware clock from the system clock in UTC. Look at > /etc/adjtime and you should see UTC on the third line. Use --local > in place of --utc, and it switches it back to LOCAL. I'd definitely > recommend using UTC though.
Just to clear up any confusion regarding your question: The date command has a --utc option. Without it, date will display (or with --set, will set) the system clock in your local timezone. But the system clock is still always in UTC; it's just transparently converting it to (or from, if setting) your timezone unless you specify the --utc option, in which case no conversion will take place. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121201214213.gq14...@codelibre.net
