At 22:12 05/11/01 +0000, Chris Dickson wrote:
>It's not dual boot, just linux and thanks for that, hope i'll remember it
>when they change again!
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aedan
>McGhie/Scotland
> >Sorry for the super east question but how do you change the time in Red Hat
> >7.1? I must have looked everywhere apart from the right place. It's an hour
>out because of the BST change.
>
>You can use Timetool. As I remember you need to be root to do it. You
>can also set the hardware clock in the BIOS.
<snip>
Unix/Linux knows about stuff like daylight savings time and timezones. On
my RH box there is a link:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 5 1999 localtime
-> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/GB
While the hardware clock is always in GMT, the displayed time (and that
used for cron & at) is automatically adjusted.
Colin
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