daylight savings time?

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> the "date" command to change the time.  Is there any way to have the
> kernel check for whether it should be using daylight savings time and make
> the adjustment automatically?  Thanks in advance.

It sounds like your system changed the date it maintains, but did NOT change your system's hardware clock. You can use the hwclock utility to do this. For instance:

hwclock --systohc

Alternatively, you can set the hardware clock from your BIOS setup utility the next time you reboot.

Rod Smith

daylight savings time?

Try setting up a localtime symbolic link - man localtime. This takes the Bios date/time (GMT) and converts it to a local timezone.

daylight savings time?

If you only use Linux on your computer, tell it you have the hardware clock set to UTC (and set the BIOS clock likewise), and tell it your timezone. If Redhat, use timeconfig. Then all the clocks stick to UTC and convert the timezone dynamically where needed; this works for me.

Robie.

documented on: 2000.06.02