Re: [newbie] Clock settings

[Todd Franklin]

Maybe you're right.  I never saw a setting in BIOS, but I'll check again.  I never did boot to windows.  I only used win4lin.  It was wierd because I was up during the time change, and it worked fine.  I actually left the machine on and when I came back in the morning, it was 2 hrs behind.  That's when started messing with the kde clock settings and when I rebooted, the time was 6hrs behind (like KDE was assuming that the hardware clock was set to  GMT)

Todd

Richard Urwin wrote:

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."




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Sent: 29 October 2002 11:25
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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

  

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