Setting time in F18

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Tue Oct 2 18:34:12 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:27:15AM -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> Dual booting with Windows, HW time is local time, how do I configure
> Fedora to not expect UTC time?
> 
> Used to be system-config-date, that isn't working so hot right now,
> starts up, etc. but does not seem to save the changes. I guess there
> used to be an /etc/sysconfig/clock, that doesn't exist.
> 
> I feel ashamed to admit I don't know how to do this very basic thing :),
> any help?

I used to just edit /etc/adjtime, changing UTC to LOCAL.  

DISCLAIMER---I have a vague memory of someone telling me this wasn't the
right way to do it, but it worked for me.



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