[Zope] ZopeTime wrong but Hardware Clock right.

Jason Spisak jason@mtear.com
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:10:31 GMT


Bruce,

Actually I'm at PST.  I'll try to see if it's running GMT or local time.

Thanks,

Jason 

Bruce Elrick writes:

> Jason,
> 
> You wouldn't happen to be at GMT-7 (MST or CDT)?  On UNIX the hardware clock
> is set to GMT and the timezone is used to print the correct local time, with
> all times stored using GMT.  Windows (98 at least, not sure about NT) sets the
> hardware clock to local time.  Most Linux distributions allow you to choose to
> set the hardware clock to local standard time or GMT for the cases where you
> are dual booting.
> 
> Zope correctly figures out the time zone and prints the adjusted local time
> (using the same system calls that other programs use).
> 
> Hope that helps...
> Bruce
> 
> Jason Spisak wrote:
> > 
> > Zopesters,
> > 
> > Why would the ZopeTime be 7 hrs slow compared to my hardware clock?
> > 
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