[RULE] Timezone

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 04:47:40 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Kweskin Richard  rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr  wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> On minimal installs the issue of timezone and utc=true or false are skipped as 
> is (quite rightly) the gui config tool to deal with this after an install.
> 
> Assuming some users will have vfat partitions and may need this sorted for 
> correct timestamping in those partitions, it would be helpful for step by 
> step instructions for both senarios: a hardwareclock set to localtime because 
> of dualbooting with win, and a hardwareclock set to utc.
> 
> Richard

Richard,

do you mean how to do it on the command line? The GUI config tool is
more or less explained in Chapter 23 of the Red Hat customization
Guide.

The shell command to do that is hwclock, which has a fairly detailed
man page.
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