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Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT



"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> Use tzconfig to set your timezone. 
> 
> Then set your clock right with date.
> 
> Finally, use hwclock --hctosys --utc to set your hardware clock to the
> current Universal time.

     If you want to use local zone time instead of GMT (for instance
if your machine is dual boot with a DOS system), edit the GMT vaiable
in /etc/default/rcS.  I use local time, and my /etc/default/rcS reads:

   # Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not.
   GMT=""

Bob
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