On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:18:59PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Slight problem, not sure what is causing it..not that experienced to solve.
>
>
> I have software that relies on a BIOS date and time. (software name is not
> important)
> My system date shows Thu Sep 13:11:43 EST 2000
> but for some reason my Bios is about 12 hours behind.
> I reboot, change the bios date and time to be correct - boot, the Linux
> date and time are now wrong so I change them....guess what my bios date and
> time are wrong again.
> Is there something I am missing......
>
> I need the BIOS time to be correct.
>
> oh..RH 6.2
Linux is probably set in thinking that the BIOS clock is GMT, looks
like you need it to be local time. There should be a file in /etc/sysconfig something
like time ore options or clock. Should be obvious in it will be a line something like
GMT=yes
set it to
GMT=no
should fix it.
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John
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