On Thursday, January 18, 2007 @ 5:13 PM, Stan Glascoe wrote: >On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:10, Greg Wallace wrote: >> Duh, where is the cmos? As far as local time vs UTF, I understand the >> difference quite well. It's just that I don't see any option of using it >> anywhere I have looked (bios and right clicking the clock in SUSE). Is >> this cmos a setting that is somewhere else to be found? >> >> Thanks, >> Greg Wallace
>This is all FYI. >BIOS=CMOS=hardware clock. >Right-click the clock in KDE's systray and choose 'Adjust Date & Time...", >enter the root password, click the Configure button That button was grayed out because I "Set date and time automatically" was not checked, so I checked it. > and I end up in NTP "Automatically start NTP daemon" was set to "Never" I changed that to "During Boot" >configuration in openSUSE 10.2...?!? Not what I expected. NTP is the way to >go if you have broadband. Keeps your system on time, all the time. I >advocate you use us.pool.ntp.org in the USA (substitute your 2 letter >country code elsewhere) because it keeps it geographically local. Choosing >the 'Use Random Servers from pool.ntp.org' randomly chooses from around the >globe. Netiquette of NTP says use a Stratum 2 or 3 server geographically >close and as little as possible. man ntpd has good intro info for NTP. Done. >Right-click on KDE's systray clock used to put you into YaST, System, Date & >Time settings. That's where the 'Hardware Clock Set To' offers 2 choices of >either 'Local Time' or 'UTC'. This is the same screen you see during an >Install of openSUSE. You're talking about right-clicking the same clock as above, right? I don't see 'Hardware Clock Set To' or any options regarding 'Local Time' or 'UTC'. I have done upgrades to SUSE since 8.1 and don't recall ever seeing that selection. I assume you only get that choice with a fresh install. Maybe there's a place in there that I could have changed it but it wasn't something that popped up automatically. >I always choose 'Local Time' because I occasionally boot into Windows. If my >system(s) were set to 'UTC', Windows would reliably mess up the >BIOS=CMOS=hardware clock and then SUSE's time would be off when I rebooted >to it. I have no idea if this has been resolved. >This is also mentioned in the side-bar help area of YaST, System, Date & >Time. Ok, now in there there IS an option to select UTC, so I changed it. However, my time is now shown in UTC. How can I get it to show local time on my clock when UTC is selected. If that isn't possible, then I'll have to change it back. > My system automatically adjusts for DST while set to 'Local Time'. So >where it says "If the hardware clock is set to UTC, your system can switch >from standard time to daylight saving time and back automatically." is >wrong because mine always gets it right even on localtime. >YMMV, >Stan Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
