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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me how to set the system (date and) time under
> BasicLinux 2.1 ?
>
> This machine has it exactly right under DOS, but when booted
> to BL2 the time seems to be quite a few hours adrift.
> 
> Do I have to fix this with some kind of time-zone info ?

To which James Miller responded:
> 
> I went through alot of time tweaking with BL, 

Same here.  Lots of trial and error got it right in the end.

> in order to get the clock to tell time correctly in your 
> time zone, you have to tell it your offset from UTC.
> This is done via a file I think is called "locale" and 
> is located in /etc, if memory serves.  I could not figure 
> out how to get such a file there using Slack packages 

What you need is the correct zoneinfo file for your location.
You will find it in /slakware/a16/zoneinfo.tgz
For example, if you live in Sydney, your zoneinfo file 
is 785 bytes.  Copy that file to /etc and rename it localtime

That should work fine, but I think it assumes your system 
clock is on GMT (or something like that).  So, I put an offset 
in /etc/rc.d/rc.S to get everything to work out exactly right:
-------------------------- 
date `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`
--------------------------
I did all this about a year ago, so I don't remember exactly
why I needed that offset.  But everything works perfectly now,
including daylight saving time.

Cheers,
Steven