> > 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. > Ah ha! /etc/localtime was a symbolic link before upgrade. The upgrade removed that link but did not replace it. I assumed (incorrectly, it seems) that that mechanism had been replaced.
> The user setting would be the variable TZ: The TZ variable is empty > [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 I am not following this. Are these commands I need to execute? > I guess it does that because your clock shows local time but says it is UTC > time. Yeah, I think. Right now, I have YAST set the clock to local time, but ntpdate screws that up when it runs. > > Check settings in "/etc/sysconfig/clock". > # cat clock ## Path: System/Environment/Clock ## Description: Information about your timezone and time ## Type: string ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock # # Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to "--localtime" # if your clock runs that way. # HWCLOCK="--localtime" ## Type: string(Europe/Berlin,Europe/London,Europe/Paris) ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock # # Timezone (e.g. CET) # (this will set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime) # TIMEZONE="US/Eastern" DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Eastern" ## Description: Write back system time to the hardware clock ## Type: yesno ## Default: yes # # Is set to "yes" write back the system time to the hardware # clock at reboot or shutdown. Usefull if hardware clock is # much more inaccurate than system clock. Set to "no" if # system time does it wrong due e.g. missed timer interrupts. # If set to "no" the hardware clock adjust feature is also # skipped because it is rather useless without writing back # the system time to the hardware clock. # SYSTOHC="yes" > 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. I do but not often enough to bother. I do run win4lin pro. I have not checked to see what it is doing. > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 > > iD8DBQFFiaKntTMYHG2NR9URAmc3AJ4hULTPelBUDRmeyfV5snDH4oIPwgCeMI3d > tn2ugYYBPmTjaNNYhFeZ+SQ= > =qZMS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Jim McKean Director of Information Services Pratt Corporation Smart Retail Graphics (R) Indianapolis - Chicago - Los Angeles W: 317-524-3334 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.prattcorp.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
