Marianne Taylor wrote: > > Does anyone know the answer to my original question. Up until about > a month ago I was keeping good time both in windows and in gentoo > with my hwclock set to local. Now for some reason everytime I boot > gentoo it thinks that the hwclock is set to UTC and corrects for that > ie) it sets the time 8 hrs earlier. So where do I look other than > rc.conf to correct this??
If at some point in the past, you booted the system with UTC in /etc/rc.conf and then switched it to LOCAL and shut your system down. It saved the offset time as the local time. Essentially, your system clock was set back 8 hours. The only fix is to manually update the time yourself using 'date'. Usage: date [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
