[NBLUG/talk] Changing hardware clock time zone on Debian/Sarge

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:57:32PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
} When I installed Debian/Sarge on one of my computers, I told it that the 
} hardware clock was NOT set to Greenwich Mean Time.  Then I set up a cron job 
} to automatically sync the clock with an NTP server, and now every time it 
} syncs, the clock is set 7 hours in the future.
} 
} I suspect that the simplest solution would be to have the hardware clock set 
} to GMT, and I know how to re-set it in the BIOS, but I can't figure out how 
} to tell Debian/Sarge that I've changed the hardware clock to GMT.  How do I 
} do that?

Edit /etc/default/rcS
And set UTC=yes:

# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
UTC=yes

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us