Re: timezones

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:18 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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'

Thanks to Bruno for explanations and fixes (I went for the base-config
rather than hwclock for no part. reason). Sorry for having a dual boot
machine ;)

M.