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triley 04-19-2004 01:08 AM
Setting system time to UTC
 
I'm trying to set my system time on a redhat 9 box to UTC. I can use the redhat-config-time utility to set the time and check the UTC box. After setting the time, I run "date" in a terminal and I show EDT time, not UTC. How do you set the system time to UTC? Thanks.

ekman 04-19-2004 12:39 PM
# date
Mon Apr 19 19:39:04 CEST 2004
# mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.save
# date
Mon Apr 19 17:39:11 UTC 2004

Regards,
L Ekman

lemon09 08-25-2009 07:56 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ekman (Post 887225)
# date
Mon Apr 19 19:39:04 CEST 2004
# mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.save
# date
Mon Apr 19 17:39:11 UTC 2004
just as a matter of fact can you please say how it works.


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