Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: > I have no idea what you need to do to re-callibrate your /etc/localtime file. > Presumably "dpkg-reconfigure " but which package? It is the tzdata package. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata However... If there are some escape clauses for the user to manually configure things and

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Hmmm... Indeed! Looking at the websites that Bob suggested, I'm reminded that there is yet one more variable that could be affecting your setup: The file, /etc/localtime, is a copy of one of the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo. These are binary files that encode information about a timezone and a

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Frandin wrote: > The TZ variable was unset.. Tried putting an "export TZ=PST8PDT" in > /etc/profile and the problem left... Had completely forgotten about that > piece of the puzzle.. Thanks all, for rebooting my brain.. Instead of setting TZ, the personal timezone configuration variable, it

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dom
On 13/06/14 18:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 13 iun 14, 08:32:29, Dave Frandin wrote: I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for t

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 08:32:29, Dave Frandin wrote: > I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. > Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd > completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for the reboot of my > brain, everybody!!

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Frandin
The TZ variable was unset.. Tried putting an "export TZ=PST8PDT" in /etc/profile and the problem left... Had completely forgotten about that piece of the puzzle.. Thanks all, for rebooting my brain.. LVDave

Re: Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Frandin
I think I might have found the problem.. $TZ was unset.. Dunno how/why.. Added a "export TZ='PST8PDT" to /etc/profile and the problem is gone... I'd completely forgotten about the TZ variable... Thanks for the reboot of my brain, everybody!! LVdave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 00:42:26, B wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:25:20 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > - hardware clock: the time of your computer's internal clock, > > should be UTC, but local time is also possible > > - system time: the system's internal reference, is always UTC, is > >

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2014, at 2:17 PM, LVDave wrote: > I'm running Debian Jessie with KDE on a laptop, and the install has developed > a very annoying problem.. I have the bios/hw clock set on localtime > (American/Pacific time). Every time I start the machine up, the system clock > changes to UTC. I ha

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Just to make it clear what we are talking about: > > - hardware clock: the time of your computer's internal clock, should be > UTC, but local time is also possible > - system time: the system's internal reference, is always UTC, is > usual

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:25:20 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > - hardware clock: the time of your computer's internal clock, > should be UTC, but local time is also possible > - system time: the system's internal reference, is always UTC, is > usually *not* shown to users (unless you choose UTC as

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 iun 14, 21:17:37, LVDave wrote: > I'm running Debian Jessie with KDE on a laptop, and the install has > developed a very annoying problem.. I have the bios/hw clock set on > localtime (American/Pacific time). Every time I start the machine up, the > system clock changes to UTC. I have to

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 June 2014 22:17:37 LVDave wrote: > I've tried installed ntpdate and tried > setting "Set Date/Time automatically" but it quickly sets the system time > to UTC. Surely that is what it is supposed to do?? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread LVDave
I'm running Debian Jessie with KDE on a laptop, and the install has developed a very annoying problem.. I have the bios/hw clock set on localtime (American/Pacific time). Every time I start the machine up, the system clock changes to UTC. I have to then go to the taskbar "set date/time" and run the