At 12:22 PM 5/5/00 +1000, you wrote:
>My box is currently running local time, but I am starting to think that I
>should have the hardware clock set to UTC (GMT) and use the OS to convert
>that to local time (AEST)
>
>
>So, is it a simple measure to change the hardware clock, change my locale
>settings and that's it? Or do I need to do something else?
>
>Darryl
>
You also have to edit /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system you are using
UTC. If you set the timezone for your timezone when you installed Linux,
you don't have to change the timezone settings. One thing to be carefull
about is if you use hwclock to set the hardware clock - you should backup
/etc/adjtime before you change the clock, and restore it afterwords. The
reasion for this is that when you set time with hwclock, it checks the how
much the clock was off, and puts a correction factor in /etc/adjtime. But
it doesn't know that you are changing what the clock is set to, so it think
the hardware clock was way off... If you forget, just delete the file, and
replace it with an empty one.
Mikkel
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