[plug] Eft help needed with time

[Gregory Orange]

Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:15 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Richard Meyer wrote:
>>> On the same old, same old topic of time and NTP and DST, I installed
>>> Edgy on a machine over the weekend, and it's nice , BUT I can't find
>>> where to adjust the time so that it knows it is running on local time,
>>> rather than on UTC. My time zones are fine, except I'm 8 hours ahead.
>> Hm, try tzselect?
>>
> Um, no, I have my time set to local time, I have my timezone set to WA,
> I then get told by tzselect that the UTC time is 11:29 and the local
> time is 19:29. I need to tell it somehow that I am on local time.

Right click on the time in the corner (or wherever it is), then click 
Preferences. There's a tick-box "Use UTC" there. It runs in user-land 
rather than sudo or root, so I'm not sure if it will help. This is on 
Dapper btw, but I have a feeling it's the same.
Greg.

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