mandrake clock

[Bill Nash]

For those not inclined toward the GUI, systems that follow the RedHat /etc
layout can find this in /etc/sysconfig/clock:
ZONE="Etc/GMT-7"
UTC="no"
ARC=false

Debian does this:
billn@lotus:/etc$ ls -al localtime
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Nov 17 13:41 localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix

Simple timezone headers are provided as simple expedients, so you can 'ln
-s /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST /etc/localtime' instead of picking a specific
region.

- billn

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Lee Einer wrote:

> Hi, David-
>
> You can reset this option after Mandrake is installed by the following
> process-
>
> Go into Control Center, then select "System," then select "Date and
> Time." Then reselect your time zone. Once you do this, you will get a
> dialog box asking if your system clock is set to GMT. Answer "yes" and
> you are good.
>
> Lee Einer
>
> David Huerta wrote:
>
> >Is there any way to adjust this after the initial setup?
> >
> >>FYI, I found out why the clock display on Mandrake was running 7 hours
> >>behind for me- apparently Mandrake Linux "wants" to display the time as
> >>Greenwich Mean Time. Consequently, if your system clock is set to local
> >>time, you must indicate at set up that it is set to GMTin order to
> >>display local time. If you indicate that your system clock is /not/ set
> >>to GMT, the software will make the necessary adjustment based on your
> >>locality so that the clock displays GMT anyway.
> >>
> >>Lee Einer
> >>
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