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Re: set date

From	Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: set date
Date	2014-09-03 20:27 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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john@wexfordpress.com <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> I set the date to correct local time but every time I reboot it goes back to GMT.
> How do I make local time permanent?
> John C.

On Slackware or a derivative edit /etc/adjtime:
-4.189405 1402261132 0.000000
1402261132
UTC

My computers only use Linux so I keep the rtc in UTC. IIRC, if the rtc
is in localtime, the DST/ST transitions are not automatic. Then again
if you boot windows it will reset the rtc after asking you.

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