[Cialug] Annoying time problems on Gentoo/Windows dual boot

[Mark Hesseltine]

You could run tzconfig in gentoo, or check /etc/rc.conf for the line 

clock="local", which in your case may be set to clock="GMT"


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:37:29 -0600, David Champion <dave@visionary.com> wrote:
> Tony Bibbs wrote:
> > /etc/timezone points to America/Chicago under Gentoo
> >
> > Windows timezone is set to central time so all seems great.
> >
> > However, the time is off for one if I correct it in the other.  I can't
> > remember exactly how much off but it's 8-12 hours from what I recall.
> >
> > Anyway, the answer to this has to be easy...what is it?
> 
> In RH / Mandrake, there's an option to "set system clock to GMT" in the
> timeconfig gui (stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock as UTC=true). You DON'T
> want to do this if you're dual-booting with Windows. This may be the
> source of the problem for you... I have no clue where that config option
> would be under Gentoo.
> 
> -dc
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