On 04/20/2010 01:46 PM, Darshaka Pathirana wrote: > On 04/20/2010 12:16 PM, Bob wrote: >>> >> To see what the timezone setting is: 'tzselect' >> To change the timezone: ’dpkg-reconfigure tzdata’ >> Look at 'man tzselect' > > Thx. I know that. My problem is not about the timezone but much more > about the hwclock set to UTC vs. local time. According to the > start-scripts a variable UTC in "/etc/default/rcS" is used to honor > this behavior. > > And I have no easy way of fixing this (after booting up) without > fidling around with hwclock and "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"...
Okay.. after taking a few seconds to really check what was going on the solution is as simple as: % hwclock -s --localtime I've added a localtime module to grml-quickconfig and attached the patch. Hopefully it will find it's way to the package. ;) (I did /not/ change the changelog.) Btw: @mika: why was the "Happy Hacking"-output was dropped? I liked it. ;) Greetings, - Darsha
>From f1e79ff51d1ced35352cf9caedd93ef64eb6b7a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darshaka Pathirana <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:08:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added localtime module --- quickconfig/007-localtime.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 quickconfig/007-localtime.sh diff --git a/quickconfig/007-localtime.sh b/quickconfig/007-localtime.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3c0a2a --- /dev/null +++ b/quickconfig/007-localtime.sh @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# localtime module for grml-quickconfig +LINE='print_line "Set system time to ${HIGHLIGHT}l${NORMAL}ocaltime (current localtime: $(date +%T))"' +KEY=(l) +FUNCTION='run hwclock -s --localtime' + +# always display entry +display_entry() { + return 0 +} + +## END OF FILE ################################################################# +# vim:foldmethod=marker expandtab ai ft=zsh shiftwidth=3 -- 1.6.3.3
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