[wplug] system time is UTC

techmike mikeslists at access995.com
Tue Apr 13 12:36:25 EDT 2004


I actually had the same problem when the time changed..  I'm not set to 
use UTC however.  I just set my clocks to look to clock.redhat.com, 
rebooted and all was well..

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net>
To: WPLUG <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:30:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [wplug] system time is UTC

> There must be something I don't understand about the way my system sets
> the time. Redhat9 with ntpd.
> 
> The computer did not automagically adjust for daylight savings time, so
> I 
> ran redhat-config-time and made sure it knew I was living in
> "America/New 
> York".  I also decided (since it seemed 'right') to check "System clock
> uses UTC" -- that way the internal clock will be universal, and Redhat 
> will determine (from my selected time zone) what time to tell me, and
> how 
> to adjust it for daylight savings time, and so forth. Right?
> 
> However, now my computer thinks it's 8:28 AM (which is Greenwich time,
> if 
> I'm not mistaken) instead of 12:28 PM.  I don't really know where the 
> problem lies, since NTPD seems to run okay.  
> 
> -Brandon
> 
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