[nflug] strange time problem

[David J. Andruczyk]

It's because the system use UTC (universal time)
internally and currently we're 4 hours off of that due
to  DST.

Not sure how to work around that however.


--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>   If I set the date in my Linux system with "date
> 07210700" I set it to 
> 7am today. I have the correct edt setting,
> /etc/timezone reads 
> "America/New_York", however the bios time is always
> 4 hours different. 
> Even if I set "hwclock --systohc", it's still a 4
> hour difference. 
> Normally I wouldn't care if the bios time is off but
> this is a dual boot 
> and windows reads the bios clock and is then wrong.
> Any ideas on this? I 
> played with the utc setting but don't think it did
> anything, even so, 
> wouldn't utc make it a 6 hour difference? Ideas?
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-- David J. Andruczyk


       
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