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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:08:42
Message-Id: 200603281554.22459.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting by Michael Kintzios
1 Am Dienstag, 28. März 2006 15:30 schrieb ext Michael Kintzios:
2
3 > I recently moved my fs from my desktop to a laptop. Unfortunately, the
4 > time change did not happen - I think that the fs was in limbo at the
5 > time the clock changed as I was moving it from one machine to the other.
6 > Since booted on the lappy it is still showing winter time (GMT), while
7 > the desktop system clock has happily changed over to the +1hr summer
8 > time setting.
9 >
10 > My /etc/localtime is pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC (it was
11 > originally pointing to GMT but I changed it in an effort to fix it).
12
13 Don't know if this has implications or not, however did you try
14 Europe/London instead of UTC/GMT?
15
16 > My /etc/conf.d/clock is set to CLOCK="UTC".
17
18 In this case, there isn't any clock change. The time is just displayed
19 differently.
20
21 > Is there anything else I am supposed to look into?
22
23 Your HW (bios) clock. Make sure you have CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
24 in /etc/conf.d/clock, so that upon system shutdown the HW clock will be
25 adjusted to system clock.
26
27 HTH...
28
29 Dirk
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