Gilbert, It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock).
Anyway all hunky dory now. Dave Gilbert Laycock wrote: > > David> During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was > David> running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the > David> time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be. > > David> It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 > David> but is in fact showing GMT + 2. > > David> Where / How do I correct this, I have checked all I can see in > David> Man for time and have not found the correct info. I have been > David> able to confirm the above using tzselect. > > The time your machine reports depends on two things: the time the > system clock is set to, and the timezone it thinks it is in. Matters > are further complicated by the hardware clock, which is used to set > the system clock. Any one being wrong could cause your problem. For > instance, if your system clock was already set to local time (BST, > which is GMT+1), when you installed hamm, and you told it: > a) that the system clock was set to GMT (when it wasn't really), and > b) that you are in time zone Europe/London, or GB or whatever, ie > local time is BST > then you would get the time reported as GMT+2 but the date command > would show it as BST. If this is the case then you need to reset the > system clock, using the date command, and then set the hardware clock > from the system clock using the hwclock command. > > Alternatively it could be that your system clock really is set to GMT, > but you have set the wrong time zone (to something that is GMT+2 at > the moment). If that is the case runs tzconfig to set it to the right > time zone (I use Europe/London). > > -- > > Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock > Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
