time change

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

usually the way to solve this problem is to keep the system
clock in "local" time and set linux to know that the system is
in local, not utc, time.

-derek

"Kalyan Vaidyanathan" <kalyan_v at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>   I recently installed linux on my machine.  The machine has Windows
> ME and is set for a dual boot.  When I installed it, I didnt get the
> time right (GMT vs EDT etc.)  Hence, when I am in windows (say
> 8:00p.m) I show the right time, but when I switch to linux it shows
> the wrong time (say 4:00p.m.)  If I switch one, the other one becomes
> wrong.  How do I tell linux to have the right offset?
> 
> let me know,
> thx and regards,
> -kalyan
> 
> 
> 
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