Can't change time from UTC to localtime

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

Thanks, Dale, that helped. What also helped, was I checked the CMOS 
settings at boot. I moved last week and the computer was turned off 
for about 10 days, and the clock lost time. I think that was the main 
problem. We'll see...

Siri Amrit 

Dale Farnsworth kindly wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:24:44PM +0000, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> >  Dale Farnsworth kindly wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:55:14AM +0000, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > > > Well now, this is interesting!
> > > >
> > > > I sent the original email (below) a few minutes ago from my
> > > > computer. It just showed up in the incoming mail and the time
> > > > is correct (or correct enough) at 8:48AM.
> > >
> > > More interesting to me is that your original e-mail date header
> > > shows that it was sent at 08:48 UTC (01:48 MST).
> > >
> > > What time does the "date" command show on your system?
> >
> > At 3:23 PM I ran "date":
> >
> > tigerflag at localhost:~$ date
> > Sat Aug 13 15:23:10 UTC 2005
>
> So the first problem is that your clock is indeed 7 hours behind.
> Without the timezone correctly set, it should have said:
> 	Sat Aug 13 22:23:10 UTC 2005
>
> The next step is to set your timezone.  I don't know what
> distribution you have, but you might try the following commands:
> 	tzconfig
> 	tzsetup
> 	timeconfig
>
> If none of those work, you can do it manually.  Try
> 	echo US/Arizona >/etc/timezone
> 	cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona /etc/localtime
>
> At that point, your timezone should be set properly, and date
> should display the time in MST.
>
> You should then set the CMOS clock with the hwclock utility.
> If you dual boot your system with windows, you should do
> 	hwclock --systohc --localtime
> If you don't use windows on the computer, you should instead do
> 	hwclock --systohc --utc
>
> After doing that, I'd probably reboot the system so the daemons
> have the correct timezone.
>
> -Dale
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