Re: Incorrect system time
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (07/10/03 11:22), michael montagne wrote:
> > I have two knoppix systems with the same problem. The time returned by
> > "date" does not match the timestamps shown in the logfiles. I've run
> > "tzconfig" and changed the timezone to US/Pacific. I've used "ntpdate"
> > to update the time with a valid timeserver. All indications are that my
> > setup is correct. /etc/localtime symlinks to the proper file in
> > /usr/share/...
> > But all my cron jobs run at the wrong time and the timestamps in the
> > logs are all 9 hours ahead.
>
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
IIRC Windows doesn't store time in GMT/UTC, but in local time, messing
up the clock if that option is set.
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