On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:38:07 -0500 (EST)
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I'm totaly confused. There are 3 things involved here, as I see it.
> The
> hardware clock, which should be set to UTC. The kernels view of time,
> which
> should be the same as the hardware clock modified by the value of
> /etc/timezone, and the "user" view of time which should be UTC
> modifiedby
> whatever they have set TZ to, or if they have not set it, modified by
> what's in
> /etc/timezone.
>
> Have I got that correct?
>
> If so why does my machine think it's 1 oclock tomorow morning? It's
> really
> about 18:30 EST.
>
> Please explain what I'm looking at wrong here.
I'm not really sure to understand more than you, but I think that
there are only two time counts: that of the BIOS and that of the
kernel; what the user sees is actually just a display; you could
change it in each terminal or window just be setting an environment
variable, but nobody is counting seconds using an offset. The only
thing I still think might help you is the fact that I have a file
/etc/localtime which is actually a link to the corresponding time
zone. Try this one:
# cd /etc
# rm -f localtime
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
If I hide this link, the system responds in UTC even if the file
/etc/timezone is correct.
HTH.
--
Christoph Simon
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