Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote:
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote:
Greetings Debianistas
My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing
Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always
one hour ahead of real time.
I have checked the BIOS clock which is set to the regular time and I
don't think that it is set to UTC. Also, the time-zone should read
Europe/London. I have tried numerous ways of altering this, even killing
off gdm so that I can login as root to fix it in Gnome. Then, reboot,
and it's back to being 1 hour ahead again.
What can I do to fix this, as it is a real PITA to keep having to fix it
for her, and let's face it, it shouldn't be necessary to do so.
Is the timezone set in her environment? What does /etc/localtime link
to?
Regards,
-Roberto
Hi Roberto
How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file.
There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages.
Thanks
A
--
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry
about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
As root
tzconfig
Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones)
hwclock --systohc
Set the BIOS clock to UTC
In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at
Europe/London
Hope this helps,
Andy
Thanks Andy
I sudo tzconfig and adjusted it specifically to Europe/London then
entered sudo hwclock --systohc and after a pause got a message back
"select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
I rebooted the machine, and saw the same message in the closing messages
when it reached the point about saving system time. Checked in the BIOS,
which is giving the correct time. Loaded KDE and went to configure the
clock and it still reports TZ as Guernsey. I ran tzconfig again and this
time it reported /Europe/London. Unfortunately, the clock is still 1
hour ahead, despite this.
A
--
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the
answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
