docs:man:timezone
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| ====== Timezone ====== | ====== Timezone ====== | ||
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| Time zones are special settings, which are used to change Universal Time Clock (UTC) to a local time. | Time zones are special settings, which are used to change Universal Time Clock (UTC) to a local time. | ||
| What we need is to install a **tzdata** package. | What we need is to install a **tzdata** package. | ||
| - | < | + | < |
| + | # poldek -u tzdata | ||
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| Now edit the **/ | Now edit the **/ | ||
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| + | TIMEZONE=" | ||
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| Time zones can be found in **/ | Time zones can be found in **/ | ||
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| To apply changes - restart a timezone service | To apply changes - restart a timezone service | ||
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| + | # service timezone restart | ||
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| + | ===== Time Sync ===== | ||
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| + | If your host BIOS clock is terribly wrong, you can fix the date from Internet: | ||
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| + | * using '' | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# date | ||
| + | Sun Aug 3 03:35:46 CEST 2008 | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# rdate -s time-a.nist.gov | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# date | ||
| + | Fri May 15 16:03:19 CEST 2015 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | * using '' | ||
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| + | **NB!**: Don't forget to sync Hardware clock: | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# hwclock | ||
| + | Sun Aug 3 03:39:30 2008 -0.720527 seconds | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# hwclock --systohc | ||
| + | [root@rescue /pld]# hwclock | ||
| + | Fri May 15 16:06:11 2015 -0.095274 seconds | ||
| + | [root@rescue / | ||
| + | </ | ||
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docs/man/timezone.txt · Last modified: 2015-05-15 16:07 by glen