* Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-19 09:39]: > Marianne Taylor wrote:
> > Does anyone know the answer to my original question. Up until about > > a month ago I was keeping good time both in windows and in gentoo > > with my hwclock set to local. Now for some reason everytime I boot > > gentoo it thinks that the hwclock is set to UTC and corrects for that > > ie) it sets the time 8 hrs earlier. So where do I look other than > > rc.conf to correct this?? > If at some point in the past, you booted the system with UTC in /etc/rc.conf > and then switched it to LOCAL and shut your system down. It saved the > offset time as the local time. Essentially, your system clock was set back > 8 hours. The only fix is to manually update the time yourself using 'date'. And then deleting /etc/adjusttime ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
