Many time zones in system

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

I want use UTC for MySQL, but the localtime for other programs. Is it possible?
I live not in a first time zone.

chithanh · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:53 am Post subject:

You can set the TZ variable to override /etc/localtime.

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

i use windows xp on my second partition and I don't use UTC time for BIOS.

chithanh · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject:

If by "other programs" you meant "other operating systems", then it gets more difficult. You can set Windows XP (but not Vista/7 iirc) to use UTC as the local time. But then of course your clock will be off.

Alternatively, there is a registry hack which will set the real-time clock to UTC while the local time is still shown correctly, but there are issues with it.

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

Understood. I'll seek for an advanced watch for desktop. On your opinion is it good idea?

iss · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:23 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if understand you correctly but this might help - in /etc/conf.d/hwclock set