Using UTC

[Tez]

Michel D'HOOGE wrote:

> My question was about setting the system clock to UTC or local TZ (you
> know when you have a dual boot and the other OS expects the time to be
> localised). For instance, last time I tried the Kubuntu Live CD on a
> windows box, I had a 2 hour shift (since I am in France). And I was
> unable to set KDE to local time instead of the default UTC...
> -- 
> Michel 

The system clock is set by the hardware clock at boot,
if you want to change that you have to use "hwclock".
I haven't used this command before so I can't tell how
exactly to use it but maybe something like this?

/sbin/hwclock --set --date `date --utc +%d/%m/%Y" "%k:%M:%S` --utc

But get someone with more experience to look at that command.

Terence Simpson