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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 08:00 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> 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
>
> Have fun!
>

Ahh, well. I tried everything, to the best of my understanding. New incoming
messages still show a timestamp of 7 hours later than it is. Messages I reply
to show the correct time going out.

I'm sure I've done it wrong, but I just can't spend any more time on it. It's
an annoyance, not a crisis.

Thanks for trying,

Siri Amrit
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