Re: [rhn-users] Standard time

[greg <gmott ntlworld com>]

> > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:01, Oswald Wyler wrote:
> > > When I booted my computer this morning. the time zone was EST as it should,
> > > but the time shown was EDT, one hour ahead.  I had to reboot twice, once in
> > > Windows (which I avoid as much as possible), and then again in Linux.
> > > 
> > > My system is an almost vanilla RHL8.0.  How can I change this behavior
> > > which annoys me twice each year?
> > > 
> > > Oswald Wyler

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:52, Peter Kühnlein wrote:
> there is one solution for all your timing problems: use ntp. It is
> easy to install under RHs, though it might be a little complicated to
> configure. I use it on RH9, RH7.3 and W2K (oops!) boxes. They all were
> set to the same system time this morning without any difficulties.
> All you need are the addresses of two time servers, and you'll never
> complain about summer time again.

ntp is good, i use it and i recommend it, however it will not cure your
configuration problem.  the linux clock is maintained in UTC, and does
not change when daylight losing time begins.  what gets displayed
depends on what time zone you are in, and whether or not your locality
does daylight saving time.  these are configured on the second tab of
the installer's date config screen, so it's easy to understand if you
missed them.  you can correct your configuration with redhat-config-date
(redhat 9) or dateconfig (redhat 7.3).

if you dual boot with windows, there is another dateconfig checkbox
which interests you, whether to save UTC or localtime in the hardware
when shutting down.  choose localtime.

-greg