Re: timezones

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (05/04/05 23:06), michael wrote:
> Here in the UK we recently went to British Summer Time, putting the
> clocks +1hr from GMT. On my dual boot (Debian + WinXP) it now seems I
> have a problem. WinXP reports the correct BST time, whereas Debian is an
> additional hour in front (ie GMT+2 instead of GMT+1) but I can't work
> out why. A quick Internet search didn't throw anything up.
> 
> I'm running:
> michael@manchester-campaigns:~$ uname -a;cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> Linux manchester-campaigns 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002
> i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
> with Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> 
> Not sure what other info to add (I thought there were msgs about
> hardware clock at boot but not sure how to access these - not in dmesg)
At the install time you're asked whether to set HW clock to GMT.  I had
a problem a while ago on a dual boot system (with MacOSX) because I
answered yes.

If you rerun base-config your should be able to set it to 'no'

Regards

Clive

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