date and local time

[thelee]

so i have a dell laptop which happens to have its BIOS time set to local time, which i didn't know until after i cp'ed America/Chicago time zone info to my localtime. which is fine, right? because i just set the appropriate setting in my clock file so that gentoo appropriately adjusts the localtime time zone setting.

the problem i have is more of an annoyance, because it seems that the clock file isn't read, and consequently the time isn't adjusted, until *after* all my partitions are mounted. which means that every time my laptop boots up, i get a series of "last write time is in the FUTURE" errors and fixes on all my partitions.

i suppose i could just cp UTC time zone into my localtime and reset my clock setting to not-local, but that seems like a bad hack to a potentially more elegant solution.

[didymos]

Why can't you just set the BIOS clock to use UTC? Or does Dell not allow that or something?
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Thomas S. Howard

[thelee]

the problem is i did that, but since i plan on triple booting with one of those os's being vista, my understanding is that the BIOS needs to be set to local time or else windows will have a lot of problems (as if it didn't already)

[termite]

I had the same problem. What you need to do is set the hardware clock to local time on shutdown. Now if only I could remember how to do this...I'll edit this if I remember.

Ah ha! Edit /etc/conf.d/clock, change