Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:31:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher W. Aiken"
Message-ID:
Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem (fwd)
-|Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:45:19 -0800 (PST)
-|From: Greg Thomas
-|To: Christopher W. Aiken
-|Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com
-|Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem
-|
-|On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
-|
-|>
-|> Eight hours? Isn't Pacific time equal to GMT-8 ? Try setting your
-|> hardware clock to GMT, i.e local time +8. If your hardware
-|> clock is set to GMT and you have the correct TZ set, Linux should
-|> automatically get the right time and correct for time changes such
-|> as daylight savings time.
-|>
-|
-|I'm kind of confused with this. On SuSE 5.3 through 6.4 I always set my
-|hardware clock to localtime and set my timezone to PST and I haven't had
-|this problem.
-|
-|7.0 is the first release where this has shown up for me.
-|
-|Why does it change only once a day? The machine isn't being rebooted and
-|I don't see any cron jobs that run hwclock or date.
-|
-|Greg
-|
I'm not sure either but my clock was off by 5 hours when I
installed SuSE 7.0. My TZ is EST (Atlantic coast). EST is
GMT-5. I read something on another news group that Linux/UNIX/BSD
uses GMT as its standard time. After reading this, I set my
hardware clock to GMT and my TZ to EST. I haven't had any
problems since. My time was even auto updated last month when
we left daylight savings time. (Yeah.... some of us do change our
clocks ahead in spring, and back in fall.... This gives us an
extra hour to "work" out in the yard instead of "working" on
out Linux boxes..... )
-=[cwa]=-
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
