Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu rtc on UTC?

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Author: Jonathan Hudson
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu rtc on UTC?
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:21:15 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Scott <gordon@???> wrote:

>
> Does anyone know how to make Ubuntu behave like unix and recognise that
> the rtc is on UTC. not localtime?
>
> I've set or changed every blooming flag I can find and I've even
> rewritten part of the hwclock.sh startup script and _still_ it thinks
> I'm on local time!
>
> Unix should be on UTC, not half-baked time like Windoze. What's wrong
> with these people?
>


In my experience, nothing; my Ubuntu boxen have always been UTC.

Have you checked that you have

UTC=yes

in /etc/default/rcS

-jonathan