Re: Time is still not right.
Keith wrote:
>My time is still not right.
>
>My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
>I get:
>
>debian# clock
>Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
>---------------------------------------
>If I type date this is what I get
>
>debian# date
>Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
>---------------------------------------
>
>I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux
>time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that
>maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has
>in it:
>
>EST5EDT
>
>I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT.
>
>
>I need some more help with this problem.
Your hardware clock should be set to UTC (Greenwich time). Your timezone
is then applied to get your local time, which is what date reports.
They should not be the same, except in Britain and countries in the GMT timezone, and then only in winter -- oh yes, and Western Europe in summer.
I believe this can be a problem if you run Microsoft software too, because
they don't do it right.
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