Michael,
From your header, I see that your local time is 5 hours less than UTC, so displaying UTC would be way off for you. I think you should set your hardware clock (CMOS) to UTC (in the bios), and then use Yast to configure your system to use local time, activating the box that says the CMOS keeps UTC. That way, although the internal time would be UTC (without dayligh savings adjustements twice a year), the system would know and display the correct local time. Like this:
cer@nimrodel:~> date Mon Sep 30 02:31:04 CEST 2002 cer@nimrodel:~> date -u Mon Sep 30 00:31:07 UTC 2002 -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson El 02.09.29 a las 14:45, Michael D. Schleif escribió:
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:45:22 -0500 From: Michael D. Schleif
To: suse-linux-e List Subject: [SLE] set system time ??? First post from a SuSE noobee ;>
An associate installed os and time was way, way off. I had him reboot and set cmos clock to gmt/utc; but, when system came up, system time was also gmt/utc.
yast2 allowed me to confirm timezone and I changed from local to gmt; but, system time didn't change.
So, I ran this from cli:
hwclock --hctosys --utc
Of course, this works; but, will it stick?
/etc/init.d/boot contains the only reference to hwclock that I can find in the init scripts; but, nothing like this invocation.
What is the SuSE way of doing this?