Re: [newbie] Clock settings
at konsole type ti + tab text command will show command about ti*** when u want to use command type man command but i cant read:( have Thai language? sawaddee --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, I use Win4Lin and the same thing happened to me. When I corrected the time today, it took. Miark On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:09:35 + Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. -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 haveKED - 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock settings
Thanks Miark Nice to know I'm not alone :-) Miark wrote: Todd, I use Win4Lin and the same thing happened to me. When I corrected the time today, it took. Miark On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:09:35 + Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]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 haveKED - 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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 haveKED - 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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Clock settings
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 haveKED - 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock settings
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." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]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 haveKED - 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
