On 4/25/05, Charles Malespin <charles.malespin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I forgot to mention that I am running a dual boot with XP on the other > side. Does this mean that I cant use the UTC option? Is there > something else that I can do since I am using XP? Thanks, > Charles Yes, even Win XP can't deal with timezones very intelligently. All Windows OS's expect the hardware clock to be running in local time; and Windows will periodically reset the hardware clock whenever it feels that daylight savings has come or gone. [An OS should never change the hardware clock to deal with daylight savings, but alas that's what it does]. So to co-exist with Windows, you can not have your hw clock in UTC. You have to tell Linux that the clock is in local time. This is usually "bad practice", but necessary to work with Windows. Be sure the "system clock uses UTC" option is unchecked in the GUI (or alternatively that the UTC=false is in the file /etc/sysconfig/clock). I'd set to false...boot into XP and set the clock, then boot back into Linux and check that the reported time is correct. Note that if your local time has daylight savings, you'll want to boot XP at least twice a year..when daylight changes. -- Deron Meranda
