Re: fixing the time?

[Tim Edwards <timothy.edwards.ext@siemens.com>]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:40:59PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
>
> > My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time
>
> Unlikely. It is showing you the time it thinks it has, adjusted for your
> time zone. If the time is wrong, likely your hardware clock is wrong.
>
> Reset your clock properly with hwclock. For ongoing clock issues, you
> may need to use chrony, ntp, or similar to keep your clock synchronized.

Yeah another thing to check would be /etc/localtime, which controls 
which timezone the machine is in. So, for eg. to change the timezone I'd do:
cd /etc
mv localtime localtime.old
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime

Obviously look in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for your correct timezone