On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100 > On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote: > > My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set > > TZ appropriately. That's basically the only sane setting, as many time > > zones do DST (and change the rules for it from time to time). > > well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always > UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm > misunderstanding you.
There are two different clocks here; there's the system clock which is kept by the kernel, which can be in any timezone, and the hardware clock which is kept by the motherboard, which is typically in UTC on unix machines. To switch the system time, just run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata; # as root and then select None, then UTC. Voila, your system time is now in UTC. > That would be nice, but there does not appear to be any way to do > that. There actually is; you edit /etc/pam.d/cron and add a line like session required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/cron_locale and add a /etc/default/cron/locale with TZ="UTC". But that's complicated. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140929163047.gi8...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
