On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Since installing hamm, I've been unable to get my time to work > properly. I want my cmos clock to keep GMT or Zulu or UTC or > whatever and have the date command show EDT. The attached shows > the output of the date command set to EDT which as I understand > it should be GMT + 4 at this time of year, and the hwclock --show > output with only a two hour difference. I'm puzzeled and > chagrined. /etc/init.d/boot contains GMT="-u" BTW.
Look in /etc/default/rcS, set GMT="-u", make sure /etc/timezone is valid, sync your clock with 'netdate va.debian.org' then set your cmos clock with hwclock --utc --systohc Jason