[wplug] fixing the time?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 19:41 -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
> My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata package
> and selected America and New York and it still shows the time as 2
> hour behind the real time.
> 
> I just did it now:
> 
> bach# date
> Fri Aug 29 17:39:33 EDT 2008
> 
> bach# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
> 
> Current default timezone: 'America/New_York'
> Local time is now:      Fri Aug 29 17:39:35 EDT 2008.
> Universal Time is now:  Fri Aug 29 21:39:35 UTC 2008.
> 
> The current time is 19:39 not 17:39 ! This is so annoying. Anyone know
> how I can fix this?

Note that your UTC is wrong too then.  Did you set the right thing in
your BIOS?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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