Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 27, Bulent Murtezaoglu did write: > > "JCR" == Jeremy C Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > JCR> Use something like: hwclock --systohc --utc > > Yes this would set the hw clock to UTC. I think the OP was asking for > how to notify the system that that is n

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:54:46PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:01PM -0500, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > But anyway, why not have the battery backed clock set to UTC? > > Because I am a simple man. unless you need to dual boot with windows, then setting the system

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Jennings
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:01PM -0500, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > But anyway, why not have the battery backed clock set to UTC? > Because I am a simple man. -- Nick Jennings

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
> "JCR" == Jeremy C Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] JCR> Use something like: hwclock --systohc --utc Yes this would set the hw clock to UTC. I think the OP was asking for how to notify the system that that is not the case. The place to do that is in /etc/default/rcS I believe.

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Nick Jennings wrote: > How do I change the settings that tell the system what the BIOS clock > is set to. The only time i remember this question being asked is during > the install process. hwclock(1) is the tool for accessing the "hardware clock". Use something like:

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread nate
Nick Jennings said: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). im not sure why but there are 2 different settings for timezone. one is /etc/timezone and one is /etc/localtime haven't tried to determine what the

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:21, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). > > So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS > time, > -8, making the system

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 15:21, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). > > So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS > time, > -8, making the system

System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Jennings
Hello, For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS time, -8, making the system 8 hours behind. How do I change the settings that tell the syst