Re: timezones

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

michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> writes:

> 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)
>
> Ta for any advice!

Ah, and I forgot: if you want to change your Debian system to use localtime
on the hardware clock permanently, you best change UTC=yes to UTC=no in
/etc/default/rcS.

Regards, Bruno.