Re: Time screwup

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:00 pm, Adam Aube wrote:
>Jeff Elkins wrote:
>> I installed Fedora on a spare partition to play with and when I rebooted
>> to Debian my time was four hours off. Lo, when I reset the clock to true
>> local time then ran ntpdate  my time was bumped up four hours.
>
>Probably one thinks the system clock is set to UTC and the other doesn't. I
>don't know where it is on RedHat, but on Debian the setting is
>in /etc/default/rcS.
>
>Try switching the UTC setting to the opposite of what it is now, and see if
>that fixes the problems.
>
>Adam

Thanks, unfortunately, that didn't do it. I did install timezoneconf and 
thought I might try to reconfigure with that. However, I haven't a clue as to 
how to run it. It's a debconf utility.

Can someone help?

Jeff