Time to agree on time...

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
    Usually I hear people complaining about how Windows messes up their 
clock times, but this time I get to bring up Fedora. (Or more likely my 
lack of knowledge, but let's stay quiet about that...) ;-)

    I shoehorned a copy of Fedora Core 1 onto a system this morning that 
was already running Gentoo. Gentoo runs with ntpd and the time has 
always been spot on. When I installed FC1 this morning I didn't know the 
ntp server name so I just set the time zone to LA and the time to 10AM. 
No problem. Fedora came up with the right time.

    However, when I went back to Gentoo the time was wrong and now shows 
4 hours later than the real time.

    I have not booted back into Fedora yet as I don't have my email on 
that said, but I'd like to get this set up correctly so that time works 
in both environments.

    Currently in Gentoo /etc/rc.conf has a CLOCK="UTC" setting. I don't 
know where the equivalent setting would be on Fedora, but looking around 
it's not in rc.conf as that doesn't exist.

    Also, is UTC the defacto right way to do this, or is there a better, 
more standard way. I've never seen a good page on making this choice.

Thanks,
Mark