On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Nelson Green wrote: > > Thanks Thierry, 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. > > In that case you can tell Debian that the hardware clock is in local > time. It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST > comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock > and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. But in between > those days it works to coexist with Windows local time view. > > But... Read the man page for rcS and then edit /etc/adjtime and set > LOCAL there. > > man rcS >
Boy do I feel dumb. I didn't even realize there was a man page for rcS. Thanks for pointing that out (I really did start with man). > > editor /etc/adjtime > ... change UTC to LOCAL ... > Yes, this is exactly what I needed. I will deal with DST when that need arises, but I'm hopeful that we can be done with windows by then. Thanks! > > Bob >
