On Thursday 08 April 2004 04:04 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 pm, Adam Aube wrote:
>>Jeff Elkins wrote:
>>> I installed Fedora on a spare partition to play with and when I rebooted
>>> to Debian my time was four hours off. Lo, when I reset the clock to true
>>> local time then ran ntpdate  my time was bumped up four hours.
>>
>>Probably one thinks the system clock is set to UTC and the other doesn't. I
>>don't know where it is on RedHat, but on Debian the setting is
>>in /etc/default/rcS.
>>
>>Try switching the UTC setting to the opposite of what it is now, and see if
>>that fixes the problems.
>>
>>Adam
>
>Thanks, unfortunately, that didn't do it. I did install timezoneconf and
>thought I might try to reconfigure with that. However, I haven't a clue as
> to how to run it. It's a debconf utility.
>
>Can someone help?
>
>Jeff

I think I fixed it. I noticed that the symlink /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime 
pointed to /etc/localtime, which did not exist. I created /etc/localtime as a 
symlink to  /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York. /etc/timezone already 
contained the string America/New_York. 

It seems to be working now.





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