Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:42:26AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I'll look at this when I have some time, but when my machine shuts > down I see a message saying "hardware clock being updated" or > something like that. This behavior may be part of the ntpdate > package, I didn't consider

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > > around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > > set

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:32:16AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I don't think Linux will adjust for Daylight savings unless the > hardware clock is in GMT, otherwise it would just end up being a race > condition with the broken OS also installed (why else would you have > your HW clock set to lo

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > sets it with local time, which is wha

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:52:47AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: I wrote: > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. [...] > ^^ > > This isn't

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > > set up the correct date/time in BIOS.

London not = GMT/UTC (was Re: time/date problems)

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. personally i just > set the broken OS's (in my case MacOS) timezone to London, England > (GMT) so it won't corrupt the hardware cl

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time &