on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:03:40AM -0700, Mark Kaufer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was reading up on how to make my system clock set to UTC (primarily > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html > ) and was a bit confused by this paragraph in section 16.1: > > "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file > /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to > install your system to use local time, just change the variable to yes to > start using UTC. It is best to reboot after editing /etc/default/rcS to > get the changes effective." > > To me, that says if you want to use UTC, change "UTC" in your rcS file to > "no". But change it to "yes" to start using UTC. I know it's late, but > am I really that tired? ;-) > > So my question is how do you go about setting your hardware clock to UTC? > >From what I understand, you should change UTC="yes" in rcS, restart, > probably run ntpdate, and then run "hwclock --hwtosys --utc". Does that > sound right? > > Although I've done all of that, I still am seeing the following output: > > # hwclock --show ; date > Mon Sep 8 00:56:48 2003 -0.896805 seconds > Mon Sep 8 00:56:50 PDT 2003 > > I was expecting to have the --show tell me that it was "Mon Sep 8 > 07:56:48 2003" rather than what the localtime is (-0700). What step(s) am > I missing?
hwclock -u
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