On (08/10/03 06:40), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British > > Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I > > selected yes to "Set Hardware Clock to GMT", Debian would be an hour > > out. > > The hardware clock should always be set to UTC (formerly GMT). > > Then you should select the appropriate timezone (e.g. Europe/London). > (Consider a machine which is being used by people in different > countries; the machine has a default timezone, but each user can set a > session timezone to suit his own location: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] export TZ=Australia/Sydney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Wed Oct 8 15:38:15 EST 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] unset TZ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Wed Oct 8 06:38:25 BST 2003 > > The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are > dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware > clock. Ah! That explains it - I am dual booting with OSX and I could only ensure that each OS displayed the correct time was to do as described above. When I have more time (no pun intended) I'll try to configure the time as you suggest - thanks
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