[plug] System Clock

[Russell Hobman]

Goodaye, there was something posted about this some time ago. check below
for a copy of this. I hope it helps. cheers, Russell.

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Bernard, I tried using 'find' to locate these configuration files that you
listed below but I couldn't.  I was surprised that nothing came up.  

I finally worked out what the problem was.  I have two control centres:  one
is the KDE control centre and the other is DrakConf which is the Mandrake
control centre.  I had adjusted the KDE control centre time zone to Perth
(with the hardware clock set to local time) but the Mandrake control centre
had never been adjusted and was set to African time (with the hardware clock
set to GMT).  

When I went into DrakConf I changed the time zone to Perth.  It then asked
me if my hardware clock was set to GMT or not.  I clicked "No" and that was
it; everything is working fine again.

Thanks, Simon

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On Sunday 03 June 2001 11:23, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Simon Collins wrote:
> > I am running Linux Mandrake 8.0 (and a Win98SE boot as well).  Every
time I restart into M8.0 the time advances by 8 hours.  The time is then
written to the BIOS so that when I start Windows it is wrong as well.  I am
guessing that the +0800 hours has something to do with the fact that Perth
is +0800 from GMT.
> >
> > Any ideas on where to start looking?
>
> Not sure about Mandrake, but on my Debian system there's a script called
hwclock.sh that executes on boot and shutdown, which refers to a setting in
/etc/default/rcS which contains a setting:
>
> # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
UTC="no"
>
> There should be something like this around, and if Mandrake is anything
like Red Hat (which they utterly deny *cough*), then you might just find the
setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock and set it to "false".
>
> HTH, Bernard.

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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mark Nold [SMTP:markn at enspace.com]
	Sent:	Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:54 AM
	To:	'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
	Subject:	RE: [plug] System Clock

	I have this problem as well with RH7.1....No solution though :(

	Mark Nold
	markn at enspace.com
	Senior Consultant

	Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

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	On Tuesday, 26 June 2001 1:10, Craig Dyke [SMTP:grail at iinet.net.au]
wrote:
	> Hi all,  I am a fairly new Linux user as far as administration of
my own system goes.
	> 
	> 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 :(Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated :)
	> 
	> Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matt Kemner [SMTP:zombie at wasp.net.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:13 AM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] System Clock
> 
> 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
>