Re: strange time zone setting

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 16:37 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Suddenly, hardware time on my laptop (in the BIOS) has to be set to UTC
> > time for the time in GNOME can be in CDT (US) time.
> > 
> > I don't know how this happened or how to fix it. I don't see how one can
> > set the time zone for the BIOS so it is all very myterious.
> > 
> > Any enlightenment out there?
> > 
> Check /etc/sysconfig/clock and see what UTC is set to.
> 
> Mikkel
/etc/sysconfig/clock is set to America/Chicago
I fixed this by setting the hardware clock to localtime using hwclock
command. But I don't know how it got set to UTC in the first place. In
was not that way last week.

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