time setting in debian

[Mike Reinehr]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> OK, you debian types. How does one set date/time in a debian system to
> use local time rather than UTC? The only hints I found was to include
> the following in
>
>  /etc/default/rcS
>
> # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
> UTC=no
>
> But this has no effect. Time is still displayed in UTC.
>
> /etc/localtime is a link to ..../US/Mountain.
>
> Note this is a Kubuntu system, not pure debian.
>
> I get no answers from the Ubuntu forums.

Collins,

First, as the earlier replies have said and as you have surmised, you need to 
edit /etc/default/rcS as above, and you need to set the timezone correctly 
with tzconfig. Then you need to use hwclock to correctly set _both_ the 
hardware clock and the software clock.

Personally, I would drop down to runlevel=1 to do this and then reboot. There 
is a script in /etc/rc0.d (K25hwclock.sh) which will set your hardware clock 
with the current software clock setting, during shutdown and it's easy to get 
into a "chicken & egg" situation. In fact, it usually takes me two or three 
tries, to do something like this. ;-)

Cheers!

cmr

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