On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: > > > >>Greetings Debianistas > >> > >>My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing > >>Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always > >>one hour ahead of real time. > >>I have checked the BIOS clock which is set to the regular time and I > >>don't think that it is set to UTC. Also, the time-zone should read > >>Europe/London. I have tried numerous ways of altering this, even killing > >>off gdm so that I can login as root to fix it in Gnome. Then, reboot, > >>and it's back to being 1 hour ahead again. > >> > >>What can I do to fix this, as it is a real PITA to keep having to fix it > >>for her, and let's face it, it shouldn't be necessary to do so. > >> > >> > >Is the timezone set in her environment? What does /etc/localtime link > >to? > > > >Regards, > > > >-Roberto > > > > > Hi Roberto > > How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file. > There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages. > > Thanks > > A > > -- > > "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry > about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" >
As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at Europe/London Hope this helps, Andy