Re: How to switch my timezone configure

richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The answer is yes, you can run dpkg-reconfigure on whatever package set
your timezone (may be base-config, but I'm not sure, and it will depend on
which release you have installed).

I am guessing your BIOS clock is set to a US timezone so is 8 hours
earlier than UTC. If so, you can easily change the bios at reboot, and
Linux will assume more time has passed. If the time difference is the
other way, you could confuse some cron jobs by putting the clock back to
before the time that previous activity logged. If you need to do that,
choose a time when you can leave the box switched off for more than 8
hours.

I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things
straight, so here is what I found out. You can either set your
Windows time to local wall-clock time or UTC. You can have it
with or without Daylight Saving Time either way. Obviously, if
you pick UTC, for your windows time, you must also select a world
time zone. The concept is identical to setting up a *NIX system,
but you have a nice pretty world map to help you. So, if you
click the DST box and choose the right geographic location for
you, you may use both Linux and Windows and the time will be
right either way. Since Windows lets you choose UTC, that sounds
like the way out of the dilemma.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group


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