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391830 2005-09-28 23:04:00 GRRRRRRR

I have dabbled with linux for ages and I don't recall ever having this problem, but since installing mepis It keeps resetting my clock 12 hours behind when i boot back to windows, i thought i had fixed but it seems to keep happening

Any help is geatly appreciated

Nigel
Morgenmuffel (187)
391831 2005-09-28 23:06:00 Whats your Timezone set to in Mepis?

rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
Chilling_Silence (9)
391832 2005-09-28 23:15:00 I struck this issue with FC4. My work around (coz I didn't know of Chilling_Silence's way) was to install ntpd (network time protocol daemon) and set it for a nz time server (tk1.ihug.co.nz is one, just google nz time server) Myth (110)
391833 2005-09-28 23:20:00 Hehe,

To be honest I do just what Tazz has said with my 64-bit PC. Works quite well :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
391834 2005-09-28 23:22:00 It's set to pacific Auckland,

but it is UTC rather than localtime which i think is what is causing the problem

Read something about this in an old redhat manual but couldn't work out how to get around it

rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime

What exactly does the above do

I realise it creates a symbolic link, does this mean it is telling the system that localtime = auckland time so don't reset bios clock?

sorry if I sound a bit obtuse symbolic links always confuse me
Morgenmuffel (187)
391835 2005-09-28 23:35:00 Whats your Timezone set to in Mepis?

rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime

no file or folder called localtime in /etc/

I'll try the other suggestions tomorrow
Morgenmuffel (187)
391836 2005-09-29 06:26:00 no file or folder called localtime in /etc/

I'll try the other suggestions tomorrowI've just looked at my Mepis install, and it has a /etc/localtime which was just a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/NZ. However, I have just changed it by doing the same commands Chill posted, removing the old /etc/localtime and then created a new symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland instead of NZ this time. Works fine either way. :)

Having no local time set in the first place might be why you had no existing /etc/localtime symlink file.
Jen (38)
391837 2005-09-29 21:22:00 Ok that makes sense

so basically I just run the second command

olast time I stopped after the first one failed, as i wasn't sure if it was a case of a different distro putting things in different place
Morgenmuffel (187)
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