Other Help Topics :: Set up correct time

Hello guys,

iam really new in Linux and I hope you can help me.

I want to set up the correct time on my DSL 1.0.1 HD installation.

When I type "date" iam getting following:
Mon May 2 18:14:49 EDT 2005

But my Timezone here is CEST!

How I set up my hwclock to UTC and my sysclock to CEST???

Please help me

Bye Bye
Jochen

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....wclock%

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....wclock%

Hello,

thank you for your help.

Now I have read so much about setting time in Linux, but I don't understand it!!!

Everybody tells me different things about setting time.

/etc/timezone
/usr/share/zoneinfo
/etc/adjtime

and commands like "tzselect" "date" "hwclock"

iam really confused now.

I have set /etc/timezone to "TZ=CET-1CES-2,M3.5.0/02:00,M10.5.0/03:00" but nothing happend!

Please help

Bye Bye
Jochen

Take a look at the write I did awhile ago:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ookmark

Once I had my harware clock showing the local time correctly, all I had to do (on my hd-installed box) was to replace the /etc/localtime file with another file choosen from /usr/share/zoneinfo/... corresponding to my timezone (in my case: .../US/Pacific), and of course renamed as /etc/localtime. Then the command "date" instantly reported that I in the new timezone.

I hope it helps someone.

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