hwclock has life of its own

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Aurel Wisse wrote:
>which is 5 hours behind, the opposite from what it
>should be. And definitely not EST.

 5 hours behind is EST, its 8:05 local time here, but that's 13:05 GMT. It 
sounds like your hardware clock is set to GMT and your system is 
configured to think that it is in local time. The fix for this is easy. 
Change /etc/sysconfig/clock so that it looks like this:

ZONE="America/Montreal"
UTC=true
ARC=false

 (note the UTC=true) and then reboot and see what happens (I suspect you
don't need to reboot, but I'm not sure how to reset/reload system clock
prefs).

Cheers,

Chris

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