Hardware Clock set to GMT

Brent Haag brenthaag at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 00:10:07 UTC 2004


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:47:56 -0600, Nathan Blackham
<ubuntu at it.et.byu.edu> wrote:
> My hardware clock gets set to GMT when I boot up into Ubuntu.  I
> dual-boot the system, so when I go into windows my time is 7 hours off.
> Is there an easy way to make the system time get set to my time zone on
> the bootup?
> 
> (I have been using ubuntu for a couple of weeks and I just noticed it.
> It tells you how much I use windows ;)  )
> 

Edit the file /etc/default/rcS, in there is a setting for time--you're
wanted the RTC to be set to local time instead of UTC.

-- 
Brent Haag
linuxguru at engineer.com




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