Help setting the time

gabe-kai · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Michigan, USA

All the installation guides I've read have stated that unless I'm duel booting a broken OS I should set my time to GMT. Now I'm in the process of building a system that will not run MS Windows at all and I'd like to know the benefits of running my system in UTC/GMT.

AND...

I am located in Michigan, USA which is EST or GMT -5. If I were to set my system to use GMT are the following steps all I need?

1. Set the clock in the BIOS to 5 hours ahead of the time on the WinXP machine.
2. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
3. set /etc/rc.conf to use "clock=UTC"

OR

1. Set the clock in the BIOS to 5 hours ahead of the time on the WinXP machine.
2. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Americas/Detroit /etc/localtime
3. set /etc/rc.conf to use "clock=UTC"

Thanks in advance for your help, I appreciate it.
'Gabe Stevens
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golloza · Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 427

gabe-kai · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Michigan, USA

Okay, that covers the how, and thanks, Golloza for the quick response.

Now are there actually any benefits to using UTC over EST?
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lynxnyl · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

I don't think so - local time is there to be used.

markkuk · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 446