Re: Correction of Clock for summer time
Gilbert,
It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as
always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the
MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock).
Anyway all hunky dory now.
Dave
Gilbert Laycock wrote:
>
> David> During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was
> David> running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the
> David> time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be.
>
> David> It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1
> David> but is in fact showing GMT + 2.
>
> David> Where / How do I correct this, I have checked all I can see in
> David> Man for time and have not found the correct info. I have been
> David> able to confirm the above using tzselect.
>
> The time your machine reports depends on two things: the time the
> system clock is set to, and the timezone it thinks it is in. Matters
> are further complicated by the hardware clock, which is used to set
> the system clock. Any one being wrong could cause your problem. For
> instance, if your system clock was already set to local time (BST,
> which is GMT+1), when you installed hamm, and you told it:
> a) that the system clock was set to GMT (when it wasn't really), and
> b) that you are in time zone Europe/London, or GB or whatever, ie
> local time is BST
> then you would get the time reported as GMT+2 but the date command
> would show it as BST. If this is the case then you need to reset the
> system clock, using the date command, and then set the hardware clock
> from the system clock using the hwclock command.
>
> Alternatively it could be that your system clock really is set to GMT,
> but you have set the wrong time zone (to something that is GMT+2 at
> the moment). If that is the case runs tzconfig to set it to the right
> time zone (I use Europe/London).
>
> --
>
> Gilbert Laycock email: gtl1@mcs.le.ac.uk
> Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock
> Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
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