Re: Dates in Linux

[Chetan Kumar <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Rajkumar Andrews wrote:

*>Hi there!
yea here :-)

*>keeping its internal date in the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)! although it
*>formats it correctly and shows me IST when I use the DATE command at the
*>bash prompt.

Well let me tell you how system time get set in ur RH system, in
rc.sysinit, the system date is set with command hwclock command with
option -hwtosys (set system clock to that of h/w clock). And based on the
values of UTC or ARC in /etc/sysconfig/clock, the h/w clock is assumed to
be sybchronised to UTC or not, so approprate settting of this shpuld ur
problem. Also look at time & date setting from control-pannel this will
alter the value of /etc/sysconfig/clock

- -Chetan S


*>I've just been playing around with Javascripts and I discover that my
*>scripts always display current time about 5 1/2 hrs backword; in other
*>words GMT! instead of IST.Shucks.
*>Anybody tell me what I can do to 'correct' this 'problem'?
*>TIA.
*>
*>RKA
*>
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