Hello all, i have a bit of a prolem with my Fedora core 4 install, latest kernel.

The time has somehow set itself to BST (seems GMT +1) i want GMT.

i've tried a few things like

date -s=ddMMhhmm

doing it through the gnome config thingie

linking the /etc/localtimezone (or whatever it's called) to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

nptdate <working npt server)

most of these seem to change it for the session, but upon rebooting it reverts back to GMT +1, most annoying.

i tried adding the commands to a script to run at startup but i couldn't edit sudoers properly so that no password was needed to run as standard user.

Any help is much appreciated.

After you get it set right, do 'hwclock --systohc'.

i did man hwclock and it said about that, so i tried it, said couldn't be found so i tried slocate hwclock, was in /sbin (not in path) tried again with no output.

i'll try again ,thanks for your time

Make sure you do it as root... normal users can't (for good reason) write to the EEPROM on the motherboard.

No luck i'm afraid,

ran hwclock --systohc as root after i changed itwith date <todays date> and after i rebooted it went back to GMT +1 (BST)

Hrrm, and /etc/localtime is set to what? (ls -l /etc/localtime)

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 1 02:19 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

which is correct

Have you tried just plain '/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT'?

Ah ha!

Cheers mate, that fixed it straight away

on fc4 my clock the other day just reset its self to something like 6 hrs different i finally figured out how to rechange it for some reason my root was asked i typed it in and than it dissappeared and nothing ever came up finally let me change it today.