[wellylug] Time zone

[Timothy Goddard]

I see this has already been answered, but how about installing and using the
standard NTP client as well? This will ensure that however your system is set
up your clock will always be millisecond-accurate in the future :) .

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:02, Porges at porg.es wrote:
> > Become root, then run 'tzconfig' and answer the questions.
> >
> > After that you will need to reset your system time if you are storing
> > local time, rather than UTC, in the hardware clock.
>
> Along a similar theme, my laptop has a little display that shows the
> current hardware clock time. At the moment this is set to UTC, so all
> times are now 13 hours off (it wasn't so bad with 12 hours off, even
> though it is 24-hour time, but now it's getting annoying).
>
> How easy is it to change an existing Linux installation (currently running
> Ubuntu Edgy) to make the hardware clock use local time instead of UTC?
> Will it still be updated automatically when DST hits? Are there any other
> caveats I need to be aware of?