Re: [vox-tech] X, other

[Ken Bloom <kablooMAPSm@ucdavis.edu>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:03:26PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> list,
> [snip]
> other weird problem is with the clock, which is set to UTC. When I got
> back from Minnesota, the clock was a day and some hours behind. I
> figured this was because of the computer relying on a screwy old clock
> battery for a week and a half and I reset the clock to UTC. I thought
> before that the computer knew that my timezone is PDT and so would
> compensate against the UTC that the system clock gives. However, now
> that the system clock is agains set to UTC, date (without the u switch)
> says UTC time, but PDT where it says the timezone. When I do "date -u"
> it says seven hours ahead of what UTC really is and what my system clock
> says. So how do I let the system know that the clock is set to UTC and
> not local time? Thanks very much.
> Nick

check out /etc/defaults/rcS and see if you can fix your problem there.

In the future, please send one problem per email. It's hard to find
all of the questions in this one.
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