[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 clock problem

[Liu Duan]

Hi.

I just installed Red Hat 8.0 on a IBM Thinkpad T23. It co-exists with Windows 
XP (on different partitions), but there is a problem with the system clock. 

XP doesn't seem to understand UTC, I can't find any setting for that. So it 
treats the BIOS time as the local time, which means that my BIOS clock *has* 
to be set to local time...

Now, when I installed RedHat I told it that the clock uses UTC time, hoping 
that I could change Windows behavior. But that's not the case, so now I'm 
trying to make RedHat NOT use UTC and use the BIOS time as local.

When I run redhat-config-date, there is a checkbox that sets the use of UTC 
time, I uncheck this, it looks as if it accepts the setting, but when I 
reboot it messes up the clock again (sets it -5hrs to the local time because 
it still thinks that BIOS time = UTC).

I also tried manually editing /etc/sysconfig/clock, which now looks like this:
ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=0
ARC=0

But no progress, on every boot the system sets the clock to BIOS date minus 5 
hours. 

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!

Liu