On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 21:52 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 18:55 -0000, Jim McKean wrote: > > > FYI I am in US Eastern time, same as New York. > > > > I have my system clock set with ntpdate in cron (this is a laptop that > > spends a lot of time off net). This has been set up this way for a long > > time and has worked smoothly. > > > > Right now, it is actually 1:36 pm local time. > > > > the system clock is > > > > > date > > Wed Dec 20 18:36:43 UTC 2006 > > That means that the locale setting for that user (or system wide) is UTC. > The system setting would be stored in "/etc/localtime", a binary file > copied by Yast from somewhere else (doesn't matter). It may be wrong/bad. > > The user setting would be the variable TZ: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> date ; TZ=EST date ; TZ=UTC date > Wed Dec 20 21:52:20 CET 2006 > Wed Dec 20 15:52:20 EST 2006 > Wed Dec 20 20:52:20 UTC 2006 > > > The clock applet shows 6:36 pm > > Matches. > > > > starting YAST and looking at the time admin panel, I see that the region > > is set to USA, the Time Zone is set to Eastern, Hardware clock is set to > > "UTC" and actual time and date is set to 13:36. > > 13:36 local time, I assume. > > > > > I save (without changing anything) and now the applet correctly reads > > 1:36 (well, 1:41 now). All is well until --- > > > > -- ntpdate runs and the clock applet rolls back to 6:56 pm (I am a slow > > writer, ignore the minutes) > > I guess it does that because your clock shows local time but says it is UTC > time. > > Check settings in "/etc/sysconfig/clock". > > Or do the procedure in Yast you did, but do change something, then enter > again and change back. > > Having the HW clock in UTC is the recommended thing in linux, unless you > double boot to windows, by the way. >
If someone could correct me here I would appreciate it. If the clock is set to UTC does that mean the time needs to be set to the actual UTC time which for USA/Eastern would be +5 hours? As the OP seems to be off by 5 hours doesn't this explain why? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
