[plug] Eft help needed with time

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Nov 28 11:45:55 WST 2006


Gregory Orange wrote:

> >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.

That only affects the time being displayed, not what the computer
actually thinks the time is.

The UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS is what you want.

Cameron




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