Re: System Time Problems.
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:21, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to
> UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST).
>
> So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS time,
> -8, making the system 8 hours behind.
>
> How do I change the settings that tell the system what the BIOS clock
> is set to. The only time i remember this question being asked is during
> the install process.
Stolen from the tzconfig manpage (apropos time made me go looking here
got lucky with my first shot).
The Debian GNU/Linux system gains its knowledge of this
setting from the file /etc/default/rcS. This file con
tains either the line UTC=yes, which indicates that the
hardware clock is set to UTC, or it contains the line
UTC=no, which declares the hardware clock is set to Local
Time. If these setting are correct, and the hardware clock
is truely set as indicated, then configuring the proper
timezone for the machine will cause the proper date and
time to be displayed. If these are not set correctly, the
the reported time will be quite incorrect. See hwclock(8)
for more details on this topic.
Running /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh restart should correct the clock
once you update the file.
I don't know what package to reconfigure with dpkg to do this. Perhaps
someone more enlightened can answer that.
--mike
Reply to: