[SLL] Setting date & time for application /os

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Charles Hewson wrote:

> 	I run a multi distro system with cmos clock set to local time
> (seattle). I have clients that refuse to connect to servers on the net
> because clock is not UTC matching server. I have been adjusting TZ
> enviroment variable without success. Neither PST8PDT or
> America/Los-Angeles works. When I change cmos all my desk top apps are
> off. Is there an other common way in env variables to indicate time zone
> offset?

TZ is correct. But this sounds like you are trying to do an offset against 
an already offset time (so your an extra 8 hours off).

Use UTC for your hardware clock. Then adjust /etc/locatime and TZ as 
needed.

Or if you really want your hardware clock to be odd, check the 
distributions you use for how they use hwclock and adjtimex at startup and 
adjust as needed.