Thanks Adam. I wanted to have a look at localtime or actually hardware clock after running timeconfig to make sure that it did its job. Greg On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:31:15PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > Oops! I blew it. It's not /etc/localtime, it's /etc/hardwareclock that > contains either UTC or localtime to indicate whether your CMOS clock is > set to UTC or local time. /etc/localtime is a symbolic link to your > current timezone, which is a binary file as you found out. As I said, the > easiest way to change things is with timeconfig. Of course, you want your > CMOS clock set to UTC first! In your case, that's 5 hours ahead of your > local time as you appear to be in central time assuming that your timezone > is set right at the moment. Typing "date -u" will tell you what the > system thinks UTC is at the moment. Sorry for the mix-up on the files. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
