On 11/20/2018 02:07 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Given that the front screen of the bios is displaying the time as
local
time, presumably that means that the time settings in the bios are local
time and the motherboard bios doesn't provide any means to input the
time as GMT, hence the bios is not set to GMT. Thinking about the data
as displayed by journalctl at boot time, the time stamp on the messages
of Nov18 18:16 for a Nov 18 7am boot would make sense if the OS assumed
the system clock was GMT and added the local zone offset to the time.
If you want the BIOS clock set to GMT, just enter the time that why and
tell Linux that the hardware clock is GMT. It won't matter one bit
because the mobo doesn't (AFAIK) use the time for anything and the only
reason it's there is so that you don't have to reset the time every time
you boot.