On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 23:13 -0500, pgf(a)laptop.org wrote:
scott wrote:
> 2. how do I make the timezone stick? I;ve told the system that I'm using
the magic file is /etc/localtime, which should be a copy of, or a
symlink to, an appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo.
i'd start my search there.
paul
> America/New_York, but the system clock is always giving me the time in
> GMT. The file /etc/syscofing/clock says that it's not used... and the
> GUI version of system-config-date fails to run on my XO (it starts up,
> policy kit asks me to authenticate, then it just vanishes...)
Paul, thanks for the zone info! The file /etc/localtime was definitely
not the same file as /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York.
However, the ultimate solution was to use the "hwclock" command. I've
never had to use that in years of using RedHat/Fedora Linux because it
is invoked by ntpd,ntpdate, and tools for setting the system time.
Force the clock to accept it is not in Greenwich (might not be
necessary...):
hwclock --localtime
Set the date and time to be correct local time using "date", then:
hwclock --systohc
My clock is correct after re-booting, yeah!