On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:00:40AM -0400, jfweber@eternal.net wrote:
******* Where does a newborn go from here? The Net is Vast, and Infinate...******** Hi wizards,
I am setting up a couple of llnux boxes for some little kids ( 6 & 7 ) ANd there is a wee problem w/ the "time" function ( Suse7.1 ) I choose "local" rather than gmt during the setup , whihc *should* in theory give me 12 hr clock , no?
Wrong. These items are not even related. Local in this part relates to your hardware clock or RTC in your BIOS. You told during the setup that you keep your clock in your BIOS in localtime (bad boy!) and not in UTC (as you should!). Do yourself a favour and keep it in UTC (or if you like, I will keep calling it GMT). Then you don't have to worry about summer time, winter time and things like that. You are refering to the display format of the time. For this you have to set the LC_TIME variable (see: man locale and man -k locale). Programs *may* use this variable to display messages in a locally format. Regards, Cees.