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From: torsten@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.de (Torsten Kasch)
Subject: Re: novice questions
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In article <q26-wc+@engin.umich.edu>, krueger@engin.umich.edu (Erick Krueger) writes:
|> Sorry about the upcoming 'novice' questions, but here goes:
|> 
|> 1 - I am trying to get the time set correctly.  I have used the date
|>     command to set it.  Each time I do, it stays correct until I reboot
|>     at which time the time is shifted ahead by an hour.  I then found the
|>     localtime link, which appeared to be pointing to the currect timezone,
|>     so I changed that to Eastern.  Now it is off by 4 hours.  If I set it
|>     to 3 am,  and reboot.  It now says it's 7.

Do you have the sources installed. If so, you may try to edit the config file
for your kernel. I changed the line which reads
	timezone        8 dst
into
	timezone	1 dst
(or was it -1 ??), rebuilt the kernel and after rebooting 'date' displayed
the time from my hardware clock.

Hope this helps,
	
	Torsten

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