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Ever since I noticed that my system clock didn't reset for the end of daylight savings time, I've been trying to get the time function working on my computer, and failing miserably. I've tried linuxconf, timetool, date, setclock, timeconfig, hwclock, and the BIOS configuration screens built in, to no avail. I can *set* the time using these utilities, and the system knows that I'm in Eastern Standard Time (that's what I get from "date"), and it knows that the hardware clock is set to GMT (/etc/sysconfig/clock includes the line "UTC=true"). But when Linux boots, even after I set the correct time through one of the above means, the first time it shows in the boot sequence is off by two and a half hours ... or three and a half hours ... or some other strange figure. I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on a Pentium machine with an AWARD BIOS. I got the machine from PC's for Everyone a few months ago. How do I diagnose and fix the problem? If it would help, I took paper notes on the one-hour argument I had with my computer last night, and I can transcribe them and send them to the list. -- perl -le"for(@w=(q[dm='r 0rJaa,u0cksthe';dc=967150;dz=~s/d/substrdm,\ (di+=dc%2?4:1)%=16,1ordi-2?'no':'Perl h'/e whiledc>>=1;printdz]))\ {s/d/chr(36)/eg;eval;}#In Windows type this all on 1 line w/o '\'s" == seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer == == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma == - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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