Fw: Time zone Update Suse 8.1 SURPRIZE SURPRIZE

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:31:05PM -0400, stephen goldman wrote:
>    Modified it (see below) -  The clock is off an hour-
>    The time stated UTC but the config file says it's local time. Tried 
> switching the HWCLOCK to UTC  ??

Yes, there's no good reason to run a hwclock in local time
unless it's a dual-boot with Windows.

> Close at this point - I found  the NTP.conf file that is the time server 
> for this machine. It has not been touched yet !

NTP always deals with UTC, leaves zone conversion up to the
client.

> #
> TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"
> DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> #DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Pacific"

No, you need both set to America/New_York. You updated that one,
not US/Eastern.

> >/etc/sysconfig/clock:
> >TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> >DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="America/New_York"

Then run this:

/etc/init.d/boot.clock start

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