Nori Heikkinen said on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:04:35PM -0400: > i just reinstalled my system, and now the time is screwed up. it's > right now 17:02 EDT. set for the US/Eastern time zone, my computer > thinks it's 9 AM, and that UTC is 13:00. i can change the time zone, > but it's not the zone that's wrong, it's what it thinks UTC is. how > do i change this?
Do this: Edit /etc/default/rcS Make sure that UTC=yes. Install ntpdate. Enter a valid public NTP server. Run /etc/init.d/ntpdate start. This will force your clock to the correct UTC time. The next time you shutdown, your hardware clock will get updated also. Note: if you're dualbooting with Windows, make sure that UTC=no, 'cause Windows stores the time in the hardware clock in localtime, not UTC. Note2: you don't _have_ to use ntpdate... you can use date to set the time by hand.) M
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