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Re: Clock question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 1 06:03:47 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 1 Nov 1996 11:01:33 GMT
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In article <55ajbv$2ui@halon.vggas.com>, pww@ssds.com says...
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>When installing RH 4.0, I thought I'd be "cosmopolitan" and use UTC for
>my clock rather than local time. This does not work very well, as
>everything shows the wrong time, except /sbin/clock. How can I get all
>of the rest of the system to realize I am using UTC (like "date"), or
>switch back to local time? Thanks!
You slightly misunderstood the question. People have their CMOS clock keeping
either local or UTC time and this question was finding out which kind you are.
The timezone setting only affects what timezone file dates are reported for.
They are kept in UTC anyway.
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