On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:39:54AM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:The computer I'm using on the net is not the system giving me the prob's. This system I'm sending this on is running Gentoo and is as solid as a rock. Oh, it reports the time as PST not UTC!
On a new install, I've edited the files to use localtime,
Which files?
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver and I have it linked to /etc/localtime. Yet if I do "date" I get UTC!
You mean the timezone is set to UTC? Or is the _time_ set to UTC. Also, how do you have your BIOS clock set? You usually want you BIOS set to UTC and the zoneinfo file will adjust UTC to your local time. The date header in your email says your time is UTC minus eight hours.
in rc.conf I have:The first time I installed Linux the time setting confused me for months.
HTH Mike
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CLOCK="local"
Why would I want my bios clock set to UTC? I've never had any bios set to UTC in the years that I've been running Linux. I have five systems running here, three now on Gentoo (the time reports properly on them) one on slackware and the fifth on smoothwall (firewall) the bios clocks on all these are set to local time and they all report the correct time format. Just this new box I've just setup with Gentoo 1.4 that seems to be haveing a problem with this. When I run "date" on the newest addition It has "localtime needs to be set..." and no matter what I try (even after reboot) upon running "date" I get the same output with the time xx:xx:xx UTC. On all the other systems when I run "date" I get the expected: Mon Feb 2 19:32:16 PST 2004. rc.conf is setup the same on all the systems and they all have /etc/localtime symbolicly linked to the same file. The setups are virtually identical except for vid and nic's. I have setup my clock like this since Caldera 1.1 without ever having any problems. I'm running gentoo-sources 2.6.1 kernel. In the config I noticed the "bios set to UTC" and made sure that this was not selected, I even checked the config file to make sure. I just can't seem to figure this out. uname -a on that system reports: " 2.6.1-gentoo #1 Thu Jan 29 00:37:49 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu"
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"date" reports: "Mon Feb 2 19:58:26 UTC 2004"
^^^
That should be PST.
-- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C
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