time stupidity

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 25 10:51:16 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 03:45 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:33:58 -0700
> > Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it possible that one of them uses UTC and the other doesn't and how
> > > do I verify/change so I don't have to reset the clock each time I
> > > switch?
> > 
> > What's your local time in relation to UTC?  If one of them says that's what
> > time it is, then you've got your answer.
> > 
> > I would see what time your bios thinks it is and go from there.  If it's only
> > out by an hour you might have a daylight saving time issue.  Do bioses do
> > daylight saving time?  I have no idea.
> ----
> that's the thing...they appear to be the exact same setup but the time
> difference makes me think that UTC settings are different between the
> two...
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this probably would have been clearer...

# diff -s /etc/localtime /mnt/ubuntu/etc/localtime
Files /etc/localtime and /mnt/ubuntu/etc/localtime are identical

Craig




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