[lug] Time zone grumbling

[Daniel Webb]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:38:54PM -0700, D. Frye wrote:

> tzconfig -- sets the timezone for the server by making a symlink from
> 	/etc/localtime to the desired location; in my case it points to
> 	/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver
> 
> tzselect -- provides the user with a menu to figure out what to use in
> 	their .profile to show time in their desired timezone
> 
> The "use UTC" option should only tell the system to read and save the
> time to BIOS as UTC. This is reportedly a bad choice for a dual boot
> system running Windows.

Ok,

$ls -al |grep time
<...>45 2006-03-30 12:26 adjtime
<...>31 2006-03-30 14:43 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain
<...>12 2006-03-30 14:43 timezone

$ps -efw |grep ntp
root     15285     1  0 18:27 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid

$date
Thu Mar 30 18:27:50 MST 2006

(it's 6 hours later than that)