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Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT



Carroll Kong wrote:
  >	Okay... this is getting semi-annoying, I do not know why my clock
  >automagically changes back about 4 hours behind.. maybe 5.  My local clock i
      >s
  >fine, it worked fine in Debian 1.3R6, but after installing Debian 2.0
  >(upgrading), it changed into some odd time.  I think it has something to do 
      >with
  >/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime but.... it is a weird binary?  Can I turn my clo
      >ck
  >back to Eastern Standard Time?  Or does anyone know why it is doing this?  D
      >oes
  >hwclock -a $GMT have anything to do with it (this is in my /etc/init.d/boot)
      >.

Use tzconfig to set your timezone. 

Then set your clock right with date.

Finally, use hwclock --hctosys --utc to set your hardware clock to the
current Universal time.

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