Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 Joel Klecker wrote: AFAIK, Mac OS *does* keep the clock in UTC. Perhaps only since 8.x though. I have my Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC system set to use UTC and Mac OS is never confused about the clock, so it must grok UTC. This is certainly not what i have found, I use macos 8.6, no m

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Renaud Dreyer
Hmmm... I have to look into this further! That's what I thought too when I installed Debian on my PowerMac, so I set the clock to UTC... But then I noticed time was set 8 hours in the past (I'm in the Western US), so I assumed MacOS kept the clok in local time. Maybe something in the Date&Time Con

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-28 Thread Joel Klecker
At 01:27 -0800 2000-01-27, Renaud Dreyer wrote: >As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think >the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS >say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell >Debian the hardware clock is set to

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >seriously though i was having all kinds of wacky trouble with the >clock under linux until i set the hardware clock to GMT and >configured linux accordingly.. > >the only thing I am using macos for at the moment is mail which will

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote: As for your 8 hours drift, it might be because you set up Debian to think the hardware clock was UTC, not local time. What does /etc/default/rcS say? If you're going to double-boot with Mac OS, you need to tell Debian the hardware clock is set to local time. Unl

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 C.M. Connelly wrote: I did notice an eight hour clock skew the last time I spent any significant time in MacOS before coming back to Linux (``coincidentally'', I'm in the Pacific Time Zone, eight hours behind GMT). I can't recall now if I made a permanent fix to that problem or if

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread Renaud Dreyer
> > Renaud, > > I had that problem, too. (*Exactly* that problem.) It turned out > that my housemate had written a script (in /etc/rc.boot) to set > the clock properly back when we first installed the system (when > hwclock was completely broken on the PowerPC), and that script was > no longer

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

2000-01-27 Thread C.M. Connelly
Renaud, I had that problem, too. (*Exactly* that problem.) It turned out that my housemate had written a script (in /etc/rc.boot) to set the clock properly back when we first installed the system (when hwclock was completely broken on the PowerPC), and that script was no longer working properly