On 29/09/14 17:30, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100 >> On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set >>> TZ appropriately. That's basically the only sane setting, as many time >>> zones do DST (and change the rules for it from time to time). >> >> well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always >> UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm >> misunderstanding you. > > There are two different clocks here; there's the system clock which is > kept by the kernel, which can be in any timezone, and the hardware clock > which is kept by the motherboard, which is typically in UTC on unix > machines. > OK. Understood.
> To switch the system time, just run > > dpkg-reconfigure tzdata; # as root > > and then select None, then UTC. Voila, your system time is now in UTC. > Thank you; I hadn't spotted that 'None' entry. >> That would be nice, but there does not appear to be any way to do >> that. > > There actually is; you edit /etc/pam.d/cron and add a line like > > session required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/cron_locale > > and add a /etc/default/cron/locale with TZ="UTC". > > But that's complicated. > OK, I'll investigate that; thanks for the info. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/54299417.40...@vanderhoff.org