Re: [OT][Pan-users] posted time anomaly

[.b e.]

>         Does your system know which time your hardware clock is set to?  Other
> info you posted leads me to think that it does not.

mandrake uses /etc/sysconfig/clock
which stores what the hardware clock is set to
ARC=false
UTC=true
ZONE=Pacific/Auckland


> that /etc/localtime is a symlink to whichever time zone you're in.  In my
> case, this is /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, and my BIOS clock is set to

this is similar in mandrake

> GMT.  There's another setting in /etc/rc.conf that deals with whether the
> BIOS is set to GMT or local time.
>
>         Does Mandrake have similar files?  If not, there's probably a cute
> graphical widget somewhere that controls it.  ;)

yep there are too many graphical widgets, but they are all reading the same 
configuration info and the system is reporting the time correctly with the 
date command (even vmware corrects windows time)

so unlike dual booting systems where windows gets it wrong, running windows 
in vmware will get it right, albeit with the hardware clock set to a 
timezone half a planet away. BUT pan records the time of a post incorrectly;

Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:40:04 +1300

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