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molnarferenc · Post by **molnarferenc** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:11 am

Hy,

I have a big problem. The bios time is normal, but the gentoo is show a wrong time. I live in hungary, so gtm+2.
The gentoo system add two hours to the bios time and show that. Why????

Please help me.

If i set the gentoo time is normal, then a bios time change minus 2 hours. I can't syncronized this.

Thanks Feco

Earthwings · Post by **Earthwings** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:16 am

Did you edit /etc/rc.conf and set CLOCK="local" as described in the handbook?

Welcome to the forums btw.

molnarferenc · Post by **molnarferenc** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:23 am

Thank you!

It's work!

molnarferenc · Post by **molnarferenc** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:24 am

What does it mean "btw" ?

vishnja · Post by **vishnja** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:25 am

I think, the Gentoo Localization Guide knows the answer:

In most Gentoo Linux installations, your hardware clock is set to UTC (or GMT, Greenwich Mean Time) and then your timezone is taken into account to determine the actual, local time. If, for some reason, you need your hardware clock not to be in UTC, you will need to edit /etc/rc.conf and change the value of CLOCK from UTC to local.

Code Listing 2.1: local vs. GMT clock

(recommended:)
CLOCK="UTC"
(or:)
CLOCK="local"

So, no you need to set your localtime:

In order to keep time properly, /etc/localtime must point to the correct time zone data file. Look around in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and pick your timezone or a near-by big city.

Code Listing 1.1: setting the timezone

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
# date
Sun Feb 16 08:26:44 CET 2003

Note: Make sure that the three-letter timezone indicator (in this case "CET") is correct for your area.

Note: You can set the value of TZ to be everything after the /usr/share/zoneinfo in your shell rc file (.bash_profile for bash) for a user-level setting. In this case TZ="Europe/Berlin".

Of course you should select the appropriate city for you

Good luck!

vishnja · Post by **vishnja** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:27 am

Oops! I was too late

btw.= by the way?

idonno · Post by **idonno** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:07 pm

My /etc/conf.d/clock is set to local time, and i have a symbolic link to my time zone /etc/localtime(/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/North_Dakota), and when I do date it says UTC... What I miss?

Dave