Re: setting the system time?
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 21:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Zach Uram wrote:
> > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right
> > now:
> >
> > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008
> >
> > but the correct time is:
> >
> > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008
> >
> > How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after
> > server reboot it shall still be correct.
>
> I used the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from July 30th and although I
> said *not* to set my clock to UTC, it did anyway.
>
> Ron Johnson (again!) asked the right question: why do you have EST and
> not EDT?
>
> Anyway, I ended up with the hwclock set to UTC. If I did:
>
> hwclock --set --date="mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
> hwclock -s
> hwclock --localtime
>
> the next boot ended up alright. My timezone was already set correctly.
>
> Using debian-40r4-i386-netinst.iso after that did *not* make the same
> mistake and kept the clock set to localtime.
>
> I set the clock to local time because with VMware I boot M$ XP, which
> isn't too smart about those kind of things.
But perhaps VMware is?
>
> Hugo
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