[wellylug] Time zone

[Daniel Pittman]

Timothy Goddard <interfecus at gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
>
> 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 :) .

That wouldn't actually fix the problem -- that the BIOS assumes the RTC
is in local time -- and would ensure that he had a millisecond-accurate
display that was 13 hours off...

Regards,
        Daniel
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