Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC
Hmmm... I have to look into this further! That's what I thought too when I
installed Debian on my PowerMac, so I set the clock to UTC... But then
I noticed time was set 8 hours in the past (I'm in the Western US),
so I assumed MacOS kept the clok in local time. Maybe something in the
Date&Time Control Panel I overlooked?
> At 01:27 -0800 2000-01-27, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> >As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think
> >the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS
> >say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell
> >Debian the hardware clock is set to local time. Unless that is, one
> >knows of a way to make Mac OS think of the hardware clock as UTC...
>
> AFAIK, Mac OS *does* keep the clock in UTC. Perhaps only since 8.x though.
> I have my Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC system set to use UTC and Mac OS is
> never confused about the clock, so it must grok UTC.
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