Re: SCO 5.0.5/5.0.6 bios clock, time zone and synching
From: Mike Brown (mike_at_tkg.ca)
Date: 07/30/03
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:29:10 GMT
John Smith wrote:
>
> 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
Some interesting background on PC BIOS RTC.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
Mike
-- Michael Brown The Kingsway Group
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