On Tuesday 12 August 2008 21:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Zach Uram wrote: > > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right > > now: > > > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > > > but the correct time is: > > > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 > > > > How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after > > server reboot it shall still be correct. > > I used the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from July 30th and although I > said *not* to set my clock to UTC, it did anyway. > > Ron Johnson (again!) asked the right question: why do you have EST and > not EDT? > > Anyway, I ended up with the hwclock set to UTC. If I did: > > hwclock --set --date="mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss" > hwclock -s > hwclock --localtime > > the next boot ended up alright. My timezone was already set correctly. > > Using debian-40r4-i386-netinst.iso after that did *not* make the same > mistake and kept the clock set to localtime. > > I set the clock to local time because with VMware I boot M$ XP, which > isn't too smart about those kind of things.
But perhaps VMware is? > > Hugo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
