I've hosed my clock setup

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Quoth Kevin O'Gorman:
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>>I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's
>>clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock.
>>Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup
>>thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just have to shut this
>>off at night).
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>Kevin,
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>Did you ever get this straightened out?
>
>Kurt
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Maybe during install the incorrect hardware clock setting was chosen. 
Some distros ask which your hardware clock is set to, UTC or local. 
Seven hours is the difference between UTC and Pacific time (US).

(or was this too obvious)

-- 
Ken