I've hosed my clock setup

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Ken Moffat wrote:

> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >Quoth Kevin O'Gorman:
> >  
> >
> >>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).
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Kevin,
> >
> >Did you ever get this straightened out?
> >
> >Kurt
> >  
> >
> 
> 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)
> 
> 

It wasn't during install.  Everything had been running okay for a time,
then I got lost in trying to tweak something through the KDE panel
thingies, and could never quite figure out what I had done, and couldn't
undo it.

++ kevin