On Mon, 17 May 2004 16:34:54 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My serious suggestion is to set your hardware clock to GMT and tell Linux that > you are in the Pacific/Auckland timezone. As you have discovered trying to > set up Linux with the clock set to the localtime is just a _total_ pita. I > think this is mainly because the authors do not realize that there is a > GMT+13 and everything goes completely bananas at the start of summer time. > Anyway that's my exp. No he is running windows I think. Windows expects the hardware clock to be set to localtime, so if you set it to UTC/GMT windows will be out by 12 hours. Set the hrdware clock to localtime, and tell gentoo, and any other distro that your hardware clock is set to localtime. In gentoo this is in /etc/rc.conf. Then when gentoo starts it will load localtime fronm the hardware clock and adjust linux's internal GMT clock correctly using the setting in /etc/localtime, which is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland When you shut down the internal GMT clock will be converted to localtime via the same link and saved to the hardware/bios clock as localtime, which is what windows expects. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
