On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:58:02PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: > Mike wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:39:54AM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: > > > > > >>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. > > > 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! > > >The first > >time I installed Linux the time setting confused me for months. > > > >HTH > >Mike > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > in rc.conf I have: > 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" > > Oookay...I don't know. I've always set my bios clock to UTC. I'm sorry I can't help. As you suggested in your first post maybe your zoneinfo file is corrupt. Have you tried to link to another zoneinfo file? Just a thought.
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