uct VS. local time in slackware

[Scott Howell]

Was curious, do you not then set the bios clock to UTC?


On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:22:53AM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > The way it
works is that when you select UTC, Slackware writes a file in > /etc
called localtime containing the word "UTC." It checks this on > startup
and shutdown and invokes hwclock with a special flag to let it > know
that it is set to UTC and makes it act appropriately.  The easiest > way
to switch back and forth, is to type "timeconfig" as root.  This will >
repeat the setting of your timezone and you can then pick UTC.  You'll >
still have to select a local time, but the clock should first be set to
> UTC to get it to show up right. > > > >
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