Re: UTC time

["Bruno Hertz" <brrhtz@yahoo.de>]

Fred Blaise <fred.blaise@excilan.com> writes:

> Hello
>
> I am trying to set my servers to UTC time using the tz tools.. however:
> -
> Universal Time is now:  Thu Mar 31 09:28:52 UTC 2005.
> -
> is my server answer. UTC though is 10:28:52... not 9.
> (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)
>
> What's the deal here? What should I do to set the clock to the real UTC?
> After installing ntpd and synced to pool.ntp.org, my clock still shows
> the wrong UTC.
>

Don't know what precisely you want to achieve, but system time usually
depends on two factors:

* hardware clock, and whether it is UTC or localtime
* time zone, which basically specifies an offset from UTC

So, if e.g. you want to set your hardware clock to UTC instead of localtime,
use the hwclock command with --utc option (man hwclock, /etc/adjtime).

If you even want system time to be UTC, just choose a timezone with offset
0 from UTC (don't know, Ireland? Iceland? ...) with the tz tools.

If all that is not what you want, maybe you could give further details.

Regards, Bruno.