Set your hw clock to GMT, then set the TZ env var globally (in /etc/profile)
Easiest fix out there, otherwise you'll be struggling trying to figure out
clocks on different time zones.
Siri Amrit Kaur spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:30 pm, Lee Einer wrote:
> > What distro are you running? IIRC, there is a gui way to handle this
> > with Mandrake.
> >
> Debian Sid, with KDE. If I right click on the clock and then login as root to
> adjust the time, it says it's in UTC timezone and it shows the correct
> current time. If I tell it to use MST, it switches to 7 hours ahead on my
> clock. If I correct the time, it goes back to UTC the next time I look.
>
> My timestamps are for UTC, and I want them to be local time because it's
> confusing. I know I'M confused :-/
>
> Siri Amrit
>
> > Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > >My timestamps are all wrong in my emails. They're 7 hours off. Right now,
> > > the clock on the desktop shows 11:14 and I have it set to MST, but when I
> > > look at the clock data it shows it set to UTC. I keep resetting it to MST
> > > (as root), and it keeps reverting to UTC.
> > >
> > >I've read "man hwclock" and tried a few things, but I haven't been able to
> > >correct it.
> > >
> > >How can I sync my system clock and hardware clock?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Siri Amrit
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