Re: why time in XP is wrong?

[Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net>]

On 14.08.17 11:08, Long Wind wrote:
> In Debian the timezone for the hardware clock is configured in the
> file /etc/adjtime;
> 
>     0.000000 14602224559 0.000000
>     1460224559
>     UTC
> 
> Edit /etc/adjtime, and change "UTC" to "LOCAL" if you want the hardware
> clock to be kept at local time instead of UTC. 

I'm all for editing human-readable config files, but /etc/adjtime does
not seem to entirely fit that category. I'd much rather follow the
advice in "man tzselect", i.e. use "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata".

That would leave me more confident that I'd not left loose ends.

Erik