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

[Tony Bibbs]

Yeah, it was set to UTC.  Switched it to local.  I'll reboot in a second 
and see how things work under winders.  You can assume that fixed it 
unless you hear from me again.

--Tony

Mark Hesseltine wrote:

>You could run tzconfig in gentoo, or check /etc/rc.conf for the line 
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>clock="local", which in your case may be set to clock="GMT"
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>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:37:29 -0600, David Champion <dave@visionary.com> wrote:
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>>Tony Bibbs wrote:
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>>>/etc/timezone points to America/Chicago under Gentoo
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>>>Windows timezone is set to central time so all seems great.
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>>>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.
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>>>Anyway, the answer to this has to be easy...what is it?
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>>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.
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>>-dc
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