On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:25:18PM +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > >When you shutdown you PC the hardware clock will be synced to the system > >time, or you can run "hwclock --systohc" to do it manually.. > > You guys are quite invaluable (I hope this is a compliment, I'm not > quite sure about the "in" before valuable). For the dual boot folks give some attention to the question: "System clock uses UTC" WindowZ keeps local time in the hardware real time clock and Unix/Linux would normally do time in GMT/UTC. If you boot your other OS and the clock is off by your TimeZone offset (+/-) then you guessed wrong on this setup detail. See redhat-config-date. "System Settings" ==> "Date & Time" If you run a single OS it does not matter which. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
