[Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?

[Alan Crandall]

At 07:15 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote:

>Alan Crandall wrote:
>
> > after a reboot from 2000 the bios showed the right time/reboot from
> > Mandrake,clock was off
>
>Here's the technical tidbit you're missing.  A PC has a hardware
>clock.  It runs off a battery, and keeps time even when the PC is
>turned off.  Windows likes the hardware clock to be set to local time.
>Linux likes the hardware clock to be set to GMT, also known as UTC.
>When you looked at the time in the BIOS, you saw the hardware clock's
>time.
>
>There's a way to tell Linux to treat the hardware clock as local time.
>For Mandrake, you do this by logging in as root, then editing the file
>/etc/sysconfig/clock.  You should see a line in that file that says
>UTC=true.  Change it to UTC=false.
Thanks Bob ! Will take care of that little problem when i get back from my 
LA run. just got a job as a long haul truck driver :)