[nflug] strange time problem

[Cyber Source]

Cyber Source wrote:
> David J. Andruczyk wrote:
>> 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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> This just started to be a problem lately. As long as I had the time 
> right in the BIOS, all was good (between dual boots). I don't really 
> even do many dual boots anymore either, winblows in vmware is usually 
> good enough for people that have to have windows stuff. Was probably a 
> package change in an update that started to default it to UTC, as I 
> haven't had this problem before, unless of course, you selected UTC in 
> one of the gui time configuration tools. I did google a bit and found 
> that there are some serious bugs in the time-admin package for Ubuntu. 
> Any other Ubuntu people see this? The time-admin gui doesn't even have 
> a selection for UTC or not, and if this is now defaulting to it, I 
> need to find a way to change it. Does anyone know of a command line to 
> NOT do UTC? "date MMddhhmm" ? Can't make out the date man page too 
> well, that man is poorly written if you ask me and I was never 
> comfortable with using info pages.
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got the fix here ----- 
http://blog.clickonline.org.au/2007/05/20/ubuntu-linux-tip-of-the-day-how-to-disable-system-timedate-from-being-reset-to-utc-gmt/