RE: System clock still not right

2000-11-08 Thread John MacLean
to a solution. John > -Original Message- > From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: System clock still not right > > > >I had the same problem. Turned out I'd been hacked and one

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-06 Thread Vidiot
>I had the same problem. Turned out I'd been hacked and one of its traits was >file creating had the wrong stamp on it. I have no other symptoms of being hacked. This is just plain strange. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-06 Thread Chris Harvey
I had the same problem. Turned out I'd been hacked and one of its traits was file creating had the wrong stamp on it. - Original Message - From: "Vidiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RedHat main mail list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 1:50 AM Subject: System clock still

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-06 Thread Vidiot
>assuming that you want the hw clock to run local time, then >edit /etc/sysconfig/clock manually as follows: > >ZONE="your timezone" (taken from /usr/share/zoneinfo/, e.g. "US/Central") >UTC=false >ARC=false > >reboot after saving the file. Been there, done that. It was originally the above and

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-06 Thread Vidiot
>is /etc/localtime correct ? It is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT, which is indeed my timezone. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like Microsoft? Lisa:

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 06-Nov-00 Vidiot wrote: >>I believe that is by design. One is supposed to use programs that are >>smart enough to adjust for localtime when looking at file datestamps. >>If they wrote the actual localtime to the bits on the hard drive, then >>when you copy those bits to another computer that

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 06-Nov-00 Vidiot wrote: >>If you have UTC true.. then you need to set the hardware clock to GMT. For >>US/Central (GMT-6) if your localtime were, say, 12:00 then the hardware >>clock should be 18:00. As far as why you're not getting the right dates on >>stuff.. I'm sure it's something simple w

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Vidiot
>I believe that is by design. One is supposed to use programs that are >smart enough to adjust for localtime when looking at file datestamps. >If they wrote the actual localtime to the bits on the hard drive, then >when you copy those bits to another computer that is in a different >timezone, it

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Vidiot
>If you have UTC true.. then you need to set the hardware clock to GMT. For >US/Central (GMT-6) if your localtime were, say, 12:00 then the hardware >clock should be 18:00. As far as why you're not getting the right dates on >stuff.. I'm sure it's something simple which someone will figure out. I

RE: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Dan Browning
> What is wrong? All files are created with UTC/GMT time, > instead of local > time. Date shows localtime, as well as the OpenWindows > clock. Yet, any > file that is created is created with GMT time. I believe that is by design. One is supposed to use programs that are smart enough to adjust

Re: System clock still not right

2000-11-05 Thread Statux
If you have UTC true.. then you need to set the hardware clock to GMT. For US/Central (GMT-6) if your localtime were, say, 12:00 then the hardware clock should be 18:00. As far as why you're not getting the right dates on stuff.. I'm sure it's something simple which someone will figure out. I just