Re: [Pan-users] Hello There (OT)\

[Douglas Bollinger]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:28:15 -0500
John LeMay <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think the way SuSE sets the system clock is proprietary. Every time I 
> reboot my machine the clock changes to about 6 hours earlier than it 
> really is. Still haven't figured out where to change it. Since I don't 
> reboot very often it hasn't been a big enough issue for me to go looking 
> for!

I don't use SuSE, but that sounds awfully like the clock being set to UTC
time.  All Unix boxes should use UTC time, because that way daylight
savings time and other things are correctly displayed.  If you dual boot,
however, Windows will not like this.

Of course, if the system clock is set to UTC, it still should display your
time correctly, as it does for me in RH 8.0.  On the external shell account
I have, if I set the variable TZ in the shell, it displays the correct time
for my time zone.  This is the line in the shell profile:

export TZ="EST5EDT"

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