Preventing Debian from changing time on hardware clock
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Preventing Debian from changing time on hardware clock
I recently installed Debian Sarge on a multiboot system. I have noticed that everytime I shutdown Debian and log into Slack, Debian has reset the hardware clock from UTC to local time. How can I prevent this this problem.
The base-config program has an option to set the timezone and it asks if your computer's clock is set to GMT time. If you answer "yes" to this question, then I'd expect that Debian wouldn't mess with your computer's clock.
Debian probably uses the hwclock tool to change hardware clock settings, so if the problem persists, then checking the man page for hwclock might give you some idea for fixing the problem.
Running base-config sorted out the problem. The shutdown script still says its saving the time as local time, but its not changing the clock, so problem solved.
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