Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1784 mails)

[eugene_tyurin@xxxxxxxxx (Eugene Tyurin)]

Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:25:37 -0500
From: Eugene Tyurin <eugene_tyurin@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20001202122537.A6985@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] time-zone



On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:11:14PM -0500, Landy Roman wrote:
> my bios clock is set to my local time,
> in yast time zone is us/eastern  and local
> 
> every time i reboot my clock in linux goes back 5 hrs.  why?

The clock goes back to GMT (I bet you're in US/Eastern).  You screwed up
the installation somehow.

You've got 2 choices:

1.  Keep bios with local time. Run yast as root: Administration->Time
Zone.  Select a zone, and then tell yast that your bios is local time -
NOT GMT time.

2 (Preferred).  Set bios to GMT.  Do the same thing with yast, but tell
it that your clock is @ GMT.  This way daylight savings will be
automatically activated.


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