Re: localtime and UTC
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Luca Sighinolfi <lsighinolfi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However,
> > my system time and hwclock are swapped.
>
> Well, I think this is normal if you have set a time zone!
Hi. Do you mean that the Lenny installer expects me not to set a time
zone if my machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime?
>
> > The output of date is:
> > Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29)
>
> You can select the right time zone (or none) with "tzselect".
> Then, set the hardware clock using "hwclock --systohc".
I have tried this but the timezone _is_ set correctly as Asia/Manila
however the clock remains skewed. Setting the hardware clock to the
system clock would simply copy the wrong time system time to the
hardware clock.
> Another tool could be usefull to set up the date: rdate
> man hwclock
> man rdate
I was hoping the that clock would be set correctly with necessitating
being online.
> > Thanks for any help.
> I hope this help
It has helped, thank you very much.
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