Re: sys time ?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Lance" == Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com> writes:

    Lance> My time gets set through nptdate at startup.  Time is fine
    Lance> in Linux but if I boot into Win2000 the time is 6hr off
    Lance> (CST).  What do I need to do so that time is correct in
    Lance> both systems?

Many Microsoft operating systems (I have never used Win2000) store
local time in the hardware clock, while Unices prefer to store UTC
(GMT). You probably have UTC stored in the hardware clock, when you
should be storing local time for Wintel compatibility. If you run
base-config as root you can fix that.

Read the manpage for tzsetup and hwclock for some idea of what you are
doing. base-config runs 'tzsetup -y -g' to set up the clocks, so you
could even try running that if you want to be a little adventurous,
though I would suggest leaving off the -y.

Cheers!
Shyamal