Re: Unable to change/set time in Fedora 9

mcpoon <mywchong@xxxxxxxxx> writes:



Arty,

I face the same problem with my dual boot system and I hope you can

help me on this. Can you explain further how you disable sync with UTC?

I can't seems to find that.

In the file something like /etc/init.d/halt is a line something like
[ -x /sbin/hwclock ] && action "Syncing hardware clock to system time"
/sbin/hwclock --systohc
This tells the system to write the system time to the rtc (real time
clock) Now if you do not have linux on "localtime" in
/etc/sysconfig/clock, then this will write utc to the rtc. Windows will
interpret this as local time,and the problem begins. Now you can remove
this line from /etc/init.d/halt or you can tell your system it is on
localtime ( although there was a bug in some distros that they would
inappropriately still write utc even though the sytem was on localtime),
or remove hwclock as suggested ( alothough this is probably
counterproducgtive since it is also used to read the rtc on bootup and
this would mean that your system would always be someting like Jan1
1970.)



Thank you.





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mcpoon
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