clock set ahead 4 hours on reboot

[David B. Toth]

At 04:30 AM 7/26/2007, Jack Carter wrote:
>I have a multiboot computer. 3 phyical hard drives. Ubuntu on one, 
>Xandros on one, Windows XP on the other.
>
>I have always had this problem even after reinstalling. When in 
>Ubuntu and I reboot to Windows the clock is ahead 4 hours. When rebooting from
>Ubuntu to windows I stop at setup and the clock is ahead 4 hours and 
>I set it back then go to windows and its ok time wise. Going from Windows
>to Ubuntu it doesn't change. Its always done this and it does it every time.

Here is the fix ...


Make Linux use 'Local' time

To make your Ubuntu system read the hardware clock as 'local'

    * edit /etc/default/rcS
    * add or change the following section
    * # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT)

    * UTC=no

This is from the following URL:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime


Dave
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20070726/e0618a76/attachment.html>