[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 clock problem

[Bob Shaw]

man hwclock

Will set system to hardware or hardware to system
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liu Duan" <lduan at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: [wplug] Red Hat 8.0 clock problem


> 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
>
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