Re: Incorrect system time
On (08/10/03 06:40), Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British
> > Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I
> > selected yes to "Set Hardware Clock to GMT", Debian would be an hour
> > out.
>
> The hardware clock should always be set to UTC (formerly GMT).
>
> Then you should select the appropriate timezone (e.g. Europe/London).
> (Consider a machine which is being used by people in different
> countries; the machine has a default timezone, but each user can set a
> session timezone to suit his own location:
>
> olly@linda$ export TZ=Australia/Sydney
> olly@linda$ date
> Wed Oct 8 15:38:15 EST 2003
> olly@linda$ unset TZ
> olly@linda$ date
> Wed Oct 8 06:38:25 BST 2003
>
> The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are
> dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware
> clock.
Ah! That explains it - I am dual booting with OSX and I could only
ensure that each OS displayed the correct time was to do as described
above. When I have more time (no pun intended) I'll try to configure
the time as you suggest - thanks
Regards
Clive
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