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 On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:32 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > On 4/25/05, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:51:59 -0500, > > Charles Malespin <charles.malespin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am running FC3 with the newest kernel 2.6.11 but am having some > > > clock issues. Every time I boot up the clock is set back 5 hours from > > > what the actual time is. > > > > This is usually caused by the bios having the clock set to local time, > > but linux is assuming it is GMT. > > > > The right way to do this is to have the BIOS clock set to GMT, but I don't > > think this works well with Windows if you are dual booting the machine. > > Yes, you want the BIOS hardware clock to be set to UTC time. The > only reason to ever leave the BIOS in "local" time is if you are > dual-booting with Windows which can not deal with timezones correctly. > As long as you're all Unix/Linux/BSD: hardware clock should always be UTC. > > The system-config-date GUI has a checkbox for "system clock uses UTC". > As well, you can just edit the config file /etc/sysconfig/clock and set the > UTC= variable to true > > UTC=true > > then reboot. Also you may want to set up NTP, or at least one-shot > set the clock with a command like following, > > ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org >
