On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:19:26AM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > > OK, sorry for not making myself clearer in the first place. Here's the > output from date ; hwclock --show ... > > consigliori:~# date ; hwclock --show > Fri Aug 28 10:16:29 IST 1998 > Fri Aug 28 09:16:29 1998 -1.006290 seconds > > hwclock shows the correct time here in Ireland. I would like for date to > display this time also, using GMT instead of IST. How do I do this? >
To have my linux box set to GMT I first used the date command to set the system time and then used "hwclock --utc --systohc" to set the hardware clock to the same time as the system. By the way, (for anybody listening) when I live my PC on for several days I have found that the hardware clock and th system time differ in HOURS. Is that OK? Should I use cron to update the hardware clock every now and then? Rafa