Mark Misulich pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 13:05 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Saturday, 2009-11-07 at 04:26 -0500, Mark Misulich wrote:
# rm /etc/adjtime # ntpdate -q ntp1.ptb.de #(or other time server); shows the difference between your computer's time and the real time # ntpdate ntp1.ptb.de # sets the system time # hwclock --systohc # copies system time to BIOS
Hi Istvan, I reset the time as per your instructions, and have booted the computer several times during the day. So far the computer seems to be presenting time and date ok, in gmt not local time. That is fine with me with all the traveling I do for work, so I will just leave it this way. Hold on, there might be a problem with that.
What is the output of the command "date" on your system? If it says something like this:
~> date Sat Nov 7 13:01:43 CET 2009
If the letters there say some local time (like CET above), but the time is UTC, then you do have a problem. Repeat the procedure taking attention to the --utc or --localtime as I said in my post.
If you still get the wron time after that, make sure your timezone is properly configured in YaST.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Hi Carlos, here is the output of "date"
Sat Nov 7 19:28:24 EST 2009
The time in yast is set to Eastern Time, yet the time on the computer is displayed in GMT in a 12 hour clock. The current display is 07:32pm, so I add 12 hours to it to get GMT time of 1932 hours gmt.
Even though the time is set to eastern time, it is displaying in gmt. I don't know how to set it to right, so --- back to you for evaluation and new instructions.
Mark
Eastern Standard Time (in the USA) is GMT -5 hours. When it is 1932 GMT it is 1432 EST in the USA. Perhaps this is why you think the time is off. By the way, while under daylight savings time the difference is 4 hours (GMT -4). -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org