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

Re: time problems

2000-06-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I was wondering if anybody also experienced this problem...I use a dual boot > system (debian/win98) and when I use debian and set the correct time/date > the nxt time I boot into windows it shows me the wrong time/date so I set it > again...then agai

time problems

2000-06-03 Thread john smith
Greetings!, I was wondering if anybody also experienced this problem...I use a dual boot system (debian/win98) and when I use debian and set the correct time/date the nxt time I boot into windows it shows me the wrong time/date so I set it again...then again when I boot into debian..same thing

Netscape 6 & Time Problems

2000-04-20 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I know this was answered previous back some time but I have downloaded netscape preview 6 Release 1. I wish to install it on a Debian Potato PC but am not sure what the structure is for packages. I have the following questions. 1. Where do I do a tar -xvvzf netscape6 so that I can run Netscape w

Re: Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I've taken the liberty of forwarding this solution to the two bug reports (48866 and 53808) that seem to concern this same time zone problem (in potato). The solution Michael gives is different from the one proposed in earlier discussion of these bugs. The earlier solutions either did not fix the

Re: Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Michael Dahlberg
Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is > completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your > hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's > OK to set the clock to GMT. The last

Re: Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
> This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies. I and others have > reported it. It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out. Hmm... I haven't used any potato boot-floppies, though. I installed slink by putting in an slink Rescue disk and then having it get the rest fr

Re: Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies. I and others have reported it. It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out. Potato is still bleeding edge..

Re: Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is > completely insane. Some thing I forgot to mention is that I install Debian slink, but then upgrade to potato. After the whole process of installing and then upgrading is finished, I have been getting the time difference g

Time problems AGAIN!

2000-01-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's OK to set the clock to GMT. The last time I did this I picked 'No' for absolutely sure

print time problems

1997-07-18 Thread Ciccio
Hi, My debian box has one standard parallel port, and one installed on an additional card. My laser printer is attached to the first and works fine for a long time. Now I've connected an ink jet printer to the second. The laser still works fine but the ink takes almost 5 hours to print a page. The

Re: time problems (forwarded)

1996-10-09 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
[CMOS clock set to stardate :)] Could it be that the new debian box has a different version of clock? A while back I upgraded mine (from the one in the stable tree to the one in the unstable tree --- sorry I forget the exact version) and my clock started acting up (one day we were in the 21st ce

Re: time problems (forwarded)

1996-10-09 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: There was a problem with clock in the older util-linux package. The version in the stable tree is OK as is the current version in the unstable tree (version 2.5.7). I think that upgrading is all you need to do. Carlo **

Re: time problems (forwarded)

1996-10-09 Thread Andy Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so > I am forwarding his message. :-( > > From: Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I use a program call "nist - timestanderization under Linux" by Frank > Brokken. Th

time problems (forwarded)

1996-10-08 Thread Bruce Perens
Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so I am forwarding his message. :-( From: Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I use a program call "nist - timestanderization under Linux" by Frank Brokken. This program works well for maintaining the clocks on my