Hardware and System Clock

GruiX · 02-09-2004, 04:22 AM

When i boot on linux, system clock is set to Hardware clock + 1 hour
It wouldn't be a problem if i only used linux but, when i boot on windows, there's no additional hour in the system clock...
Maybe a wrong zone configuration somewhere.. So, which package i should reconfigure? Which configuration file to edit?

I'm using Debian (sid)
THanks!

Mega Man X · 02-09-2004, 04:41 AM

Hi GruiX!

I'm not sure what you want to do... do you want to change Linux date/time? If that is the case, the command date is what you are looking for. Here is an example:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udate.htm#01

Regards!

Oliver Low · 02-09-2004, 10:12 AM

You'll probably want to set the hardware clock too using the hwclock command.

hwclock --systohc

(usu lives in /sbin)

Not doing this snagged us once!

Oliver Low

GruiX · 02-09-2004, 11:47 AM

Thanks but.. doesn't seem to work
There's still one hour of difference between hard and soft clock (i can check it by running the BIOS setup or booting windows)

The thing i wonder is that, at boot time, i can read twice "Setting System Clock using Hardware clock as reference"

Oliver Low · 02-09-2004, 01:06 PM

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html
may be of interest.
Oliver

lumpyhed · 02-09-2004, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Oliver Low
You'll probably want to set the hardware clock too using the hwclock command.

hwclock --systohc

(usu lives in /sbin)

Not doing this snagged us once!

Oliver Low

ROFL yes once the old caldera that runs squid box had to be rebooted, and it gained an hour of time and killed eveyone off the net thinking it was dinnertime all already.

The libriaians were not amused..