mandrake clock

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:17, KevinO wrote:
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> David Huerta wrote:
> > Is there any way to adjust this after the initial setup?
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> Kevin Brown wrote:
> > dateconfig is what RH uses.  I would guess mandrake has the same/similar
> > command to change/setup the systems date/time.
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> # man timeconfig
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> # man hwclock
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> The settings are stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock :
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> # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
> ARC=false
> UTC=false
> ZONE=America/Phoenix
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> 
> (The hardware clock & system time are set to local time. Displays local time)
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It seems that every modern OS offers date/time/time zone configuration
on install and it's a very good thing to take the 30 seconds to get it
right on install...it always makes life easier.

Craig