Re: timezones

From: Bruno Hertz (brrhtz_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 04/06/05

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:50:20 +0200

    michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> writes:

    > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:18 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
    >> On (05/04/05 23:06), michael wrote:
    >> > Here in the UK we recently went to British Summer Time, putting the
    >> > clocks +1hr from GMT. On my dual boot (Debian + WinXP) it now seems I
    >> > have a problem. WinXP reports the correct BST time, whereas Debian is an
    >> > additional hour in front (ie GMT+2 instead of GMT+1) but I can't work
    >> > out why. A quick Internet search didn't throw anything up.
    >> >
    >> > I'm running:
    >> > michael@manchester-campaigns:~$ uname -a;cat /etc/apt/sources.list
    >> > Linux manchester-campaigns 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002
    >> > i686 GNU/Linux
    >> >
    >> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    >> >
    >> > with Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
    >> >
    >> > Not sure what other info to add (I thought there were msgs about
    >> > hardware clock at boot but not sure how to access these - not in dmesg)
    >> At the install time you're asked whether to set HW clock to GMT. I had
    >> a problem a while ago on a dual boot system (with MacOSX) because I
    >> answered yes.
    >>
    >> If you rerun base-config your should be able to set it to 'no'
    >
    > Thanks to Bruno for explanations and fixes (I went for the base-config
    > rather than hwclock for no part. reason). Sorry for having a dual boot
    > machine ;)

    Hehe, the part. reason could be because it's easiest and safest, which
    is the best way to go :) Unfortunately, every distro handles this different,
    and being myself a comparatively new Debian user converted from RedHat,
    I too still have to figure out how some parts of the system are set up
    here ...

    Regards, Bruno. 

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