Re: How to disable UTC time?

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

Yuwen Dai <yuwend@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time,
> so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct.  I do
> these actions to disable UTC:
>
> 1.  add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS
> 2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime
>  
> Neither of the above works.  Yesterday  I set the BIOS clock as UTC time, then
> Linux added 8 hours to it, it's my local time which was correct.  But this
> morning, the system time in Linux is 8 hours ahead again. 
>
> So how to disable UTC or set the correct clock?  I'm using Debian Wheezy.
>
> Best regards,
> Yuwen

I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get
it...  but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock?