Hardware Clock set to GMT

calle carl.johan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 12:08:07 UTC 2004


Maybe the installer should ask a question like "Will this computer
dual-boot with a windows system?" and set this value accordingly?

Or even better, try to check out the partitions to see if it will and
try to put the value based on that?


On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:42:16 -0600, Nathan Blackham
<ubuntu at it.et.byu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:10 -0500, Brent Haag wrote:
> > 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
> >
> 
> Thanks Guys.
> Nathan
> 
> 
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