Re: timezone setup and PC clock

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

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Barry Masterson writes:
>
>On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Paul Kirschner wrote:
>
>> ...Now the PC boots DOS and shows the proper time but Linux/Debian 
>> shows the time as off by 4 hours late.
>
>The same thing happens on 0.93 version 1.2.11, 4 hours slow.
>
>I reset the time,  # date --set=HHMM, but thats only good while I'm 
>running. /sbin/clock has the correct time, but that is separate from 
>the 'date' clock. I'm going to look into that /etc/init.d/boot script
>also.

I had a problem similar to this recently owing to not knowing whether
muskogee's clock was set to anything sensible at all - it turns out I
guessed wrong.  I fixed it by editing the line in /etc/init.d/boot
which said:-

	GMT="-u"

...to read:-

	GMT=""

...and it now gets the time right.

ttfn/rjk