On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:36:34PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my > > > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference? > > > Below shows only one hour... > > > > > > greer:/# date > > > Sun Nov 1 03:32:06 CST 2009 > > > greer:/# hwclock > > > Sun Nov 1 04:32:10 2009 -0.917266 seconds > > > > It is not documented in the manpage, but running hwclock without > > arguments seems to be equivalent to using the "--show" option, and that > > always displays local time even if your clock runs on UTC. > > > Can I change my hardware clock to UTC via the linux command line? It's > currently set to localtime on one of my remote systems. I read the manpage > of hwclock but I'm still not sure. > > Does this do it: > > hwclock --systohc --utc > > -Rob >
dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata Then select GMT or UTC or whatever. date -u 110200552009 ; hwclock --systohc Would do it if you just need to reset a clock : I find I always need to do a man date first to get the format MMDDhhmmCCCC correct. Hope this helps, All best, AndyC > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
