Re: Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?
Vineet Kumar declaimed:
> * paul@mackinney.net (paul@mackinney.net) [030530 10:28]:
> > Silly question 2 of 3: Now that my dual boot is working again, I'd like
> > the time to be correct when I run Windows. I know that during
> > installation I can tell the system that the hw clock should be local
> > time, but can't seem to find out to switch it now. Doesn't seem to be
> > covered in the docs for date, tzconfig.
>
> There may be something that can be dpkg-reconfigured to do this more
> abstractly, but the way I know of is to edit /etc/default/rcS. look for
> a line that says UTC=yes and change it to UTC=no. The file is
> well-commented, as I recall.
>
Thanks, Vineet! I thought I had grepped /etc for 'UTC', guess not.
Why doesn't 'apropos UTC' find this? The option is documented in the rcS
man page.
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