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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Help correcting system time
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:29 pm, Mike Garfias wrote:
> You can set the hwclock from the cmd line to GMT using the hwclock command.
>
> MST = GMT -7
>
> SO run 'date', grab the time, add 7 hours, and feed that string into
> hwclock.


Thanks, Mike. I did it. Now lets see what the timestamp shows on this.

Siri Amrit
>
> Siri Amrit Kaur spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> > On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:23 pm, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > > I always leave the hw clock set to GMT, and use the TZ environment
> > > variable to correct.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > > set TZ='America/Phoenix'
> >
> > My /etc/timezone file already is configured for 'America/Phoenix'
> >
> > > export TZ
> > >
> > > Put that in your .profile, or equivelant.
> >
> > I don't know what your last sentence means, or how to do that.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Siri Amrit
> >
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