Thanks Greg again! You're right! Guys, you know everything. The easiest way to set local time with date commandis to simply put in single quotes like this: date -s 'sep 10 2006 15:08:00' which makes it 03:08 PM. Many thanks again! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:51 PM Subject: Re: time zone setting > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm going to guess that what is happening is that your time zone is > set correctly, and your hardware clock is set to local time instead of > GMT, but the system thinks your clock is set to GMT, and adjusts for > the difference when you boot up. If your time zone is in fact set > correctly, and your hardware clock is set to local time, then do the > following: > > 1. Open /etc/default/rcS in your preferred editor. > > 2. Find the line that says > > UTC=yes > > , and edit it to say > > UTC=no > > , and save your changes. > > Then, you need to set your clock to your current time. To do this, > have a look at the date(1) manual page. Off the top of my head, date > hhmmss should work, where hh is hour, mm is minute, and ss is seconds, > which I usually set in the 24-hour format, where 13:45 is 1:45 > P.M. However, I have to look up the syntax in the man page when I do > this, so since it's off the top of my head, I stand to be corrected, > and don't take my word on the right way to do it, read the man > page. Hth. > > Greg > > P.S., I'm still assuming you're using debian. If you aren't, then > either find out how to make the rcS change in your distro, or tell us > what your distro is, so someone familiar with your distro can give you > the correct instructions. > > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Ned Granic wrote: >> Hi all, >> This is not a big issue, but I cannot get my local time set up correctly. >> When setting up the time zone, whether the hardware clock is set or not >> to gmt, and time zone is AZ, my local time doesn't come out right when I >> run the date command. >> It's far ahead. >> Does it have to do anything with my router where the time zone is again >> set to AZ? And how do I fix it? >> >> Many thanks in advance! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFBHrg7s9z/XlyUyARAv1mAJ48g2H+rv0z+Qs/jyrxWNH1EV4dQwCeNbws > TvRzAFw72V8Pw1XZv8bRP/E= > =mx3v > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
