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kogorman
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 Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: Adjusting the clock settings |
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My system seems to always report times in UTC; I would prefer local times. I have no idea where to adjust this.
Help a n00b?
As a possibly separate issue, how do I tell if the system
clock is holding UTC or local time, and how do I change
that?
These matters were probably clear to me for a minute or
so in the midst of the initial install, but I've forgotten
everything since.
++ kevin
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KePSuX
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Section 7a of the install guide....
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# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
(Suppose you want to use GMT)
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
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frohman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| My system clock holds the local time, not UTC. How can I get Gentoo to realize that it is local and not UTC? Right now I have to set my time zone as GMT to get the right time to display. |
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Tazok
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Have a look at the /etc/rc.conf file:
| Quote: | # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
# Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then set CLOCK
# to "local". This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/clock script.
CLOCK="UTC" |
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frohman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| It is already set as local |
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radonsg
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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maybe u will wan to use npt-client to sync your time.
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asph
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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i use rdate to sync my time, it works great!
| Code: | | emerge rdate && rdate -s time.nist.gov |
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frohman
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. Everything is working now. (With the clock, that is.) |
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