Ubuntu question UTC vs. localtime.

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 4:44 pm, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:47:09PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > The other problem is that apparently when he installed it he set the
> > clock the UTC, but he also dual boots Windows. I was wondering how I
> > can instruct him how to change that from UTL to localtime so he can
> > maintain his hardware clock at localtime.
> >
> > In SuSE, it is easy to set in /etc/sysconfig/clock which is read
> > by /etc/init.d/boot.clock. But, ubuntu and Debian are quite different.
>
> /etc/default/rcS:
> UTC=no
>
> Running ntpd is probably a good idea, too.
I really don't care if he runs ntpd or not. The issue that I was trying to 
solve was the hardware clock issue. 

Another issue he has is with his wireless driver. I had him rmmod bcm43xx 
and set up ndiswrapper and his interface came up satisfactorily.

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