Re: Setting software clock (gmt)

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Chris Frost wrote:
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  >I'd like to have a box setup so that it's hardware clock is set to gmt,
  >while in software the box presents the time in the local time (central
  >fwiw); how would I do this? Is there a pre-setup way to account for
  >daylight savings time, or should I either do it manually or through cron?
 
Use tzconfig to set up your timezone, which is best defined by the nearest
city in the same zone (so mine is Europe/London).  Use date to set the
system time to the correct local time.  Then use `hwclock --systohc --utc'
to set the hardware clock to UTC (= GMT).

(All as root, of course.)

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