sounds as if you want to set the time zone to GMT
Craig
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:46 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> The hardware clock is already set to UTC, but the OS has a global offset
> of -7 hours set by a time zone. I wish to set the time zone to UTC so
> there is no diferance between the hardware clock and the system clock
> and they both are UTC.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Craig White
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:49 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: ****RE: ****Changing the Time Zone
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 20:41 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > The date command only changes the time for the user, I was hoping for
> a
> > global alteration.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> > Craig White
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:19 PM
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > Subject: RE: ****Changing the Time Zone
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:55 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > > The hardware clock is already set to UTC. I realize that I could
> set
> > it
> > > forward 7 hours and have my timezone set it back seven but that is
> > > nasty. Unless you can use this somehow with hctosys to not only set
> > the
> > > time but also change the time zone... Though the man does mention
> the
> > > command tzset, and that looks promising. I will let you know.
> > ----
> > fwiw, I typically use 'date' command to set the time/date and then
> > hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock but I don't know if
> setting
> > the timezone or utc functions through these commands makes a permanent
> > change.
> ----
> you're not tracking...the date command sets the date/time in a user
> console but the hwclock command with --systohc writes that to the
> hardware clock.
>
> Craig
>
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