topic title: Setting time to BIOS
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#1
I'm having one of those pesky time zone problems. I have no trouble setting the zone through the control center, but antiX reads my BIOS time as universal rather than local. My on-screen local time is therefor off by several hours. I can fix this by setting my zone as"universal time." But I wonder why I can't get antiX to see BIOS as local. I've fiddled with tzdata and updating time on-line, but no luck. Am I missing something here?
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Posts: 216
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#2
I ended up working out my own fix for this--along the lines of adjusting BIOS time rather than local time in antiX. It's been a long time since I've had to do this. Usually it's simple to set time, but once it goes wrong it can get more muddled than you'd think...
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#3
In /etc/default/rcS
"UTC=yes" for BIOS in universal time.
"UTC=no" for BIOS in local time.
"UTC=yes" for BIOS in universal time.
"UTC=no" for BIOS in local time.
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#4
Thanks, secipolla. I knew about this setting but I'd fiddled with so much other stuff I wasn't sure how important it was. It seems to be working all right now.