SCO 5.0.5/5.0.6 bios clock, time zone and synching

From: John Smith (atarts_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: 30 Jul 2003 00:04:50 -0700

Hi All,

Does SCO expect the BIOS clock to be set to UTC?

Ive got a few SCO boxen spread across a couple of time zones and at
the moment, the bios clocks in the servers are set to localtime not
UTC.
The timezone settings in SCO Admin are also wrong.

I was under the impression *nix always expects the BIOS clock to be
set to UTC and then the timezone settings in SCO tell the OS what the
local time is.
This does not seem to be the case for me.
On a testing box, Ive set the BIOS clock to UTC, set the correct
timezone in scoadmin but the date command in a root shell still gives
the wrong time.

Either the timezone information in scoadmin for my timezone is wrong
and I need to set up an unlisted timezone (which I can do easily
enough) or im missing something more fundamental here.

Anyone care to wield a clue-bat?

cheers

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