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

[Walter Hansen]

My sever syncs with Ebay every night.

> On Monday 08 August 2005 10:18 pm, E Frank Ball wrote:
>> } 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:
>
> Sounds like just the critical step I was missing.
>
> As for the issue of using NTP, I have my computers set up via cron to run
> the
> following command at midnight every night:
>
> rdate time.nist.gov
>
> Aside from a computer with a really slow clock (probably a dying battery,
> though the CMOS seems OK), this seems to work, although in practice I
> staggered the cron jobs so I don't get more than one computer doing an NTP
> request at a time.
>
>
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>
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