Or, set the clock to the correct time and issue the command:
hwclock -s
HTH,
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 12:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Clock question
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>
> FYI, very likely you have set your system time to GMT. Suggest go to
> timetool reset system time to the time zone of your country's
> GMT-? That
> was how I set system time in Linux-Mandrake 7.1 HTH
>
> At 11:52 AM 04-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >When I go to change the date / time in KDE (as root), or
> when I change
> >the date / time in shell, and go to reboot, the time consistently
> >reverts back to GMT. How can I get it to show my local time (GMT-5)
>
>