The background is that MS sets the hardware clock in local time, whereas *nix sets it to GMT and handles local time in software.
Actually I would be suprised if it was the BIOS, did you boot Windows at some point? That would have changed the hardware clock. Since Windows takes care of it, I don't see a BIOS manufacturer designing such a feature. It would be wrong whatever OS you ran. If it was a feature of the BIOS I would expect there to be an option to turn it off. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: 29 October 2002 11:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Clock settings Todd Franklin wrote: > OK here's my problem: Daylight savings time took effect the other > night. My BIOS seems to be capable of taking care of this itself. > KDE did too. So now my clock was 2 hrs behind. I used the KDE time > and Date configuration, and set it to the correct time CST (central > standard time GMT-6) and then when I rebooted, kde reported time 6 > hours behind. In other words, KDE thinks the bios clock is set to > GMT. But in boot-up, linux reported the proper time. So this time I > set KDE to unspecified (UTC) and now the BIOS, KDE and Linux boot-up > report the proper time. However, Netscape mail tags all my messages > in GMT. Can somebody tell me the proper way to fix this problem. > > Todd > > > > > > Possibly you don't have KED - Control Center - System - Date+time set to your local ? It ought to then read your system clock and adjust it,but somehow it makes little mistakes , so just alter it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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