Hi people, I reinstalled Debian last week, and as usual, during the installation I set my time to America/Caracas (it was a networkless install with the first debian etch dvd, since I'm on a wireless network). Then, when I booted debian, my time was 4 hours earlier (Caracas is -4 hours from GMT), so I ran tzconfig attempting to set the time to the hardware clock, but, by mistake, I selected UTC instead of UCT. Now, everytime I reboot, the system's time is 4 hours earlier (it is ok in windows and ubuntu). So, I tried running tzconfig to set the time properly, but I get 'command not found' when trying to run it, so where is it gone? (guess I lost it with a dist-upgrade to lenny/sid, but how to set my time to the hardware clock now?).

Oh, and something that might be related, when I invoke 'hwclock --show', I get the following message (translated from spanish): 'The execution of select() to /dev/rtc to wait for a clock signal timed out' (I see a similar message when turning debian off).

So, what am I missing here? (it's getting very annoying seting up the time every time a boot into debian).

Ragards, and thanks in advance.

Edit the file /etc/default/rcS as root and change the UTC=yes to UTC=no.

Hi HappyTux, well, there's something weird here: when I was gonna edit /etc/default/rcS, the time was already set to 'UTC=no', so I guess I might have changed it some time in some other way and don't remember now. I changed it to 'UCT=yes' and rebooted to test if the system's time was set to the hardware clock, but I'm still 4 hours earlier when I reboot. Any clues?

Thanks in advance.

Hmm that is usually the problem check to make sure the /etc/timezone actually got set to America/Caracas.

Sorry, I forgot to say this in my previous post, my /etc/timezone file is set to America/Caracas:

I'm really confused here. I even try going to 'System>Administration>Date and time' (in Gnome), setting the timezone to America/Caracas and still it's always 4 hours earlier when I reboot (no matter if I choose to synchronize to a NTP server or not).

Hi, sorry for double post; this is just to let you -and other people facing this issue- know that I finally solved it with:

On the menu, scroll down to the last option (Etc) and then select UCT; this should sync your system clock with the hardware clock.