Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead (on-going)

2007-06-10 Thread andy
andy wrote: andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at Europe/London Hope this helps, Andy

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead (on-going)

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21:56AM +0100, andy wrote: andy wrote: andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and

[SOLVED] Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead (on-going)

2007-06-10 Thread andy
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21:56AM +0100, andy wrote: snip A more general point - you, and I, need to read up on the way that Debian does the init scripts :) Try editing /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh They are well

Re: [SOLVED] Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-10 Thread arijit
sudo joe /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh At first line: HWCLOCKPARS= was blank, so added, with quotes: --directisa and saved. I then ran sudo hwclock --directisa --systohc and then rebooted. thanks all. i was facing the same problem in Gnome, since i am using debian. now it's solved.

KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always one hour ahead of real time. I have checked the BIOS clock which is set to the regular time and I don't think that it is set to

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always one hour ahead of real time. I have checked the BIOS clock which is set

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always one hour ahead of real time. I have checked

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Hi Roberto How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file. There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages. Interesting. On one system of mine it is a binary file, yet on the other it is a symlink

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Hi Roberto How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file. There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages. Interesting. On one system of mine it is a binary

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:04:51PM +0100, andy wrote: ZONE_TMP_FILE=`mktemp` find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type f -print0 |xargs -0 md5sum $ZONE_TMP_FILE grep `md5sum /etc/localtime |cut -f1 -d\ ` $ZONE_TMP_FILE rm -f $ZONE_TMP_FILE SNIP 4c9f9c5c5f86bcc5465c08831ef59e75

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:04:51PM +0100, andy wrote: ZONE_TMP_FILE=`mktemp` find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type f -print0 |xargs -0 md5sum $ZONE_TMP_FILE grep `md5sum /etc/localtime |cut -f1 -d\ ` $ZONE_TMP_FILE rm -f $ZONE_TMP_FILE SNIP

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST)

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 19:24:04 +0100, andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at Europe/London Hope this helps, Andy Thanks Andy

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:56:03 +0100 andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time