Re: Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-18 Thread Andres Migliazzo
You can consider these aproaches depends of the situation: 1- Synch. your system with a reliable NTP server and change the hardware clock. This is what I do in my home's system. # rdate time.mit.edu && hwclock --systohc 2- Install openntpd and run the an ntp client as a daemon. This is what I do

Re: Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-15 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, "Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled." There at list 2 reasons, when the battery becomes old, The time and the date become incorrect and then that depends on initial instaleu

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:30:58PM +, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nye writes: > >> How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the > >> time for DST, and ending up an hour out? > > > > Linux doesn't

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-13 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nye writes: >> How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the >> time for DST, and ending up an hour out? > > Linux doesn't do that. > That's a bold statement. Could you clarify, as it sounds like y

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Raj writes: > Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of > localtime? What is local time for a computer? What if you have different users with different locales and different time zones? What if your local jurisdiction makes changes to local time (such as advancing

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Nye writes: > How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the > time for DST, and ending up an hour out? Linux doesn't do that. > Do you just tell one of them not to change the clock, and live with it > being wrong until you boot into the other one? No. Since Windows is

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lee wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 >>> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpl

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lee wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 >> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead >>> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I hav

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
lee wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead >> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC >> alarm enabled. > > It's supposed to make it easier to

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier to deal with dayl

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead > of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC > alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier to deal with daylight savi

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently Set th

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently Set th

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't > correspond to my country which is gmt+1) > I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, > how to do it permanently Set the tim

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Ding Honghui
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't > correspond to my country which is gmt+1) > I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, > how to do it permanently > > thanks a lot > bela date -s then hwclock -w you'd better install

how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently thanks a lot bela