Hmmm... I have to look into this further! That's what I thought too when I installed Debian on my PowerMac, so I set the clock to UTC... But then I noticed time was set 8 hours in the past (I'm in the Western US), so I assumed MacOS kept the clok in local time. Maybe something in the Date&Time Control Panel I overlooked?
> At 01:27 -0800 2000-01-27, Renaud Dreyer wrote: > >As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think > >the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS > >say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell > >Debian the hardware clock is set to local time. Unless that is, one > >knows of a way to make Mac OS think of the hardware clock as UTC... > > AFAIK, Mac OS *does* keep the clock in UTC. Perhaps only since 8.x though. > I have my Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC system set to use UTC and Mac OS is > never confused about the clock, so it must grok UTC. > -- > Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer > <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
