On Thursday 28 April 2005 08:00 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > OK. I don't know how to set the hw clock to GMT. If it's done in BIOS, I
> > don't have an option for GMT; I'll have to find out what GMT is in
> > relation to MST.  If it's done somewhere else than the BIOS, then where?
> > How?
>
> You don't have to do in BIOS itself. See my earlier message example:
>
> date --utc -s "hour:minute:seconds"
> hwclock --utc --systohc
>
> So for me here in Seattle area, it is 12:56:22 PDT and 19:56:33 UTC.
>
> I could run:
>
> date --utc -s "19:56:33"  # or date -s 12:56:22
> hwclock --utc --systohc
>
> It is normal practice for Unix systems to have their hardware clock in
> UTC.
>
> Then set up your /etc/localtime for example:
>
> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime
>
> or
>
> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime
>
Thank you, Jeremy. I didn't see your message until just now, what with my 
timestamps all mixed up, things have been showing up all higgledy-piggledy. 
Keeping my fingers crossed it's all straightened out now.

I appreciate everybody's help, SO much!

Siri Amrit
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