[plug] System Clock

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Craig Dyke wrote:

> Every time I turn my computer on the clock is out by 8 hours.
> I have attempted to use hwclock to fix the problem, but, it would
> appear that the information is being written to the BIOS from a file
> and I do not know where to go in search of this :(

If you could tell us which distribution of Linux you are using we might be
able to tell you which file to change. 

Under Debian & derivatives, edit the file /etc/default/rcS
and change UTC=yes to UTC=no

 - Matt