Re: System clock malfunction

To: michael.mohn@uberleet.de
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: System clock malfunction
From: "Girish Kulkarni" <girish@hri.res.in>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:19:39 +0530
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run
> Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian
> handle the time difference. Just make sure you have the right time zone
> by running 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. Otherwise you should tell it that
> your clock is set to local time (via /etc/default/rcS).

Oh, THAT simple?! Thanks Andrei and Michael. I do have 'UTC=yes' in
/etc/default/rcS while my BIOS shows local time (IST). I don't run any
other system on this laptop so decided to change the BIOS time (after
reading http://bugs.debian.org/346342).

Thanks,
Girish.

--
Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com

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