No, in Gentoo that is used to set your time zone. Your clock settings, which includes configuring how your hardware clock is set, are in /etc/conf.d/clock.
Owen On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:07:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not sure how Debian is setup, but in Gentoo: > > rm /etc/localtime > create a symlink from /etc/localtime -> /path/of/your/timezone > > i also have the ntp service running @ boot to sync up my clock. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brian Henning > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:01 AM > To: TriLUG > Subject: [TriLUG] Can't convince Debian the system clock isn't UTC > > Hi Gang, > Seems like I had this problem before on a different machine, but the > posts I found about it (march of 05) aren't helping this time. Here's > the skinny: > > Brand new shiny Lenovo T60p, dual-booting XP Pro and Debian Etch. Works > beautifully (for the bits I've figured out so far; ati setup was a > hassle but I conquered it, and the 3D acceleration makes my head spin!) > except...the clock. > > I'm using KDE for my desktop environment. The KDE clock applet is set > to Eastern/New_York, and consistently shows a time four hours slow (XP > shows correct time). This seems to indicate that Debian thinks the > hardware clock is UTC when it is actually local time. The thing is, > none of the settings seem to make any difference. In /etc/defaults/rcS, > I have "UTC=no" (without quotes of course) and /etc/adjtime contains > "LOCAL". Command-line tools such as uptime and top also show the > four-hour-slow time. > > Further confusing me, I tried changing rcS to contain UTC=yes and > adjtime to contain UTC, and it made no difference! The clock still > reads four hours slow. > > The proof is in the pudding (or the date command, here): > > % date > Thu Oct 5 07:00:31 EDT 2006 > % date --utc > Thu Oct 5 11:00:33 EDT 2006 > > Clearly the UTC time is actually local time. > > So.. um.. What do I do to fix it? I've tried Googling for how to > control whether the hardware clock is local or UTC, and nothing I've > come up with seems to be useful. > > Thanks a lot, > ~Brian > > > -- > ---------------- > Brian A. Henning > strutmasters.com > 336.597.2397x238 > ---------------- > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member > Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
