Patrick Bartek wrote: >On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:59:25 -0500 David Wright ><deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri 18 May 2018 at 17:13:07 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > Okay, it's my fault: I admit it. During the Base Only, Terminal-only >> > install of Stretch, I clicked UTC instead of Local for the hardware >> > clock time. Honestly, I thought the clock was set to UTC. Haven't >> > installed any other OS on this system since Wheezy 5 years ago. So, >> > now system time on Stretch is 7 hours earlier than it should be -- >> > difference between my time zone and Greenwich. >> >> You could reboot and set the hardware clock in the CMOS/BIOS >> to UTC time (coming up to 02:00 Saturday as I send this). > >Unfortunately, I have other OSes on this system and they are configured >for the hardware clock set to local time. I need to keep it that way. > >Thanks, anyway.
The code in the Debian installer that deals with this [1] is: --------------------------------------- # Update target system configuration for utc/localtime selection utcfile=/target/etc/default/rcS db_get clock-setup/utc if [ "$RET" = true ]; then if [ -e $utcfile ]; then sed -i -e 's:^UTC="no":UTC="yes":' -e 's:^UTC=no:UTC=yes:' $utcfile fi if [ -e /target/etc/adjtime ]; then sed -i -e 's:^LOCAL$:UTC:' /target/etc/adjtime fi OPT="--utc" else if [ -e $utcfile ]; then sed -i -e 's:^UTC="yes":UTC="no":' -e 's:^UTC=yes:UTC=no:' $utcfile fi if [ -e /target/etc/adjtime ]; then sed -i -e 's:^UTC$:LOCAL:' /target/etc/adjtime fi OPT="--localtime" fi --------------------------------------- If you're using systemd, then /etc/default/rcS is not likely to do much. However, you may want to check in /etc/adjtime. My machine has the following: 0.000000 1521991744 0.000000 1521991744 UTC If yours is saying "UTC" there, then try "LOCAL" instead. HTH! [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/clock-setup/blob/master/finish-install.d/10clock-setup#L118 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html