Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT | > | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? | > | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I | > | think xntpd is installed. | > | > I'm not sure I'm following what you want. You want to set your BIOS | > clock to GMT and then have Debian show that when you run apps like | > xclock, xdaliclock, etc? Let's say you ask some guy on the street what | > time it is and he says 2pm, what time would you want your computer to | > tell you it is when you execute the command "date"? | | OK, sorry for not making myself clearer in the first place. Here's the | output from date ; hwclock --show ... | | consigliori:~# date ; hwclock --show | Fri Aug 28 10:16:29 IST 1998 | Fri Aug 28 09:16:29 1998 -1.006290 seconds | | hwclock shows the correct time here in Ireland. I would like for date to | display this time also, using GMT instead of IST. How do I do this?
Gotcha. I think what you want is to set your time zone to GMT. You can do that with tzconfig. When it asks you for a geographic area just choose "None of the above" and then you can choose GMT, GMT+0, UTC, UCT (I think they're all equivalent). This will make it system wide. You can also do this "per user" by simply putting, for bourne shells, TZ=GMT;export TZ or, for csh setenv TZ GMT into your shell init file, e.g., ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.cshrc, etc. Gary
