On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:23:07PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: | dual booting with linux these days i am now totally lost. | seems like the xandros distro picks up the how clock | but the set /etc/localtime didn't do anything. date | shows the same as the bios time... | | could the linux dualbooters help me set up the system | so the two os do not fight over time? | | what is the proper setup? | | bios: UTC | os: timezone | | or | | bios: localtime | os: localtime and pretend i am in a timezone? (ntpd gets crazy this way) | | or | | bios: timezone | os: timezone
I don't quite understand these three options you give. Both OS and BIOS should run in UTC. You configure your environment with TZ which will default to /etc/localtime. That is, do not explicitly set TZ and you get the timezone pointed to by /etc/localtime (should be a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/...), export TZ=Europe/Zurich and get the times as used in Switzerland. Kernel and NTPd just use UTC. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/