(Added inadvertently omitted subject) On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 05/07/2014 21:38, Nelson Green a écrit : > > Good afternoon, > > > > This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with > > Debian on > > a machine that already had windows installed on. I installed a second > hard > > drive, installed Debian, and almost everything works. But I apparently > > told the > > installer that the system clock is set to UTC, when it is not (because > > windows > > has no real concept of time). > > > > So when I boot to windows the displayed time is the actual local time, > > but when > > I boot into Debian the displayed time is four hours behind local time. > > If I do a > > date -u the time that is displayed is the correct local time. > > > > I have modified /etc/adjtime and removed the UTC line, but every time > > I boot up > > Debian the line re-appears, and the displayed time is still four hours > > behind. > > So how do I tell the Debian system that the hardware clock is set to > > local time > > in an effort to compensate for the lessor system's inability to > > correctly manage > > time? > > > > Thanks, > > Nelson > > You can tell windows to use UTC internally (while still displaying local > time) > see > > http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/2000/Q_21805674.html > > Thanks Erwan, but I am afraid I have to leave the windows installation alone. Fortunately I rarely have to mess with windows, and as a general rule I don't lower my standards to theirs, but in this case I have no choice, at least until we can eliminate windows from the equation completely. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53b859a1.6060...@rail.eu.org > >
