From: "Erik Heil" <eheil@rcn.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: uct VS. local time in slackware
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:34:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017801c24c4c$e4b55630$6401a8c0@6S4X011> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020825150723.GA17687@lrxms.net>
Hi, Scott.
You can either set the clock in the BIOS manually, or sync the time
automatically at boot-time via xnptd. This can either be done from a script
in /etc/init.d or you can even run it at regular intervals as a kron job.
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <showell@lrxms.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: uct VS. local time in slackware
> Was curious, do you not then set the bios clock to UTC?
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:22:53AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > The way it
> works is that when you select UTC, Slackware writes a file in > /etc
> called localtime containing the word "UTC." It checks this on > startup
> and shutdown and invokes hwclock with a special flag to let it > know
> that it is set to UTC and makes it act appropriately. The easiest > way
> to switch back and forth, is to type "timeconfig" as root. This will >
> repeat the setting of your timezone and you can then pick UTC. You'll >
> still have to select a local time, but the clock should first be set to
> > UTC to get it to show up right. > > > >
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