[plug] Eft help needed with time

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:45 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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

Brilliant - thanks to all.
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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