Author: Mathew Newton Date: To: Hugo Mills CC: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Changing system time from UTC to GMT?
Hi Hugo,
On Sat, March 6, 2010 1:05 pm, Hugo Mills wrote: > Do you actually mean GMT here, or do you mean "local UK time"?
Ah, yes, I thought there might be more to this than meets the eye! Given
what you've said, I do mean local UK time.
> Setting this will vary depending on your distribution, but in Debian
> (and by extension, I assume Ubuntu) by running "dpkg-reconfigure
> tzdata".
My naivety shining through there - forgot about the choice of distros. I
am using Debian so have given that a go and it seems to have worked
nicely.
> The time-keeping issues that some people have with VM guests are
> entirely independent of this configuration. Your VM will keep the
> same drift from the host's clock that it always had.
Thanks for that. I'll be using ntpd (with an one-off trigger of ntpdate on
boot), and have xen.independent_wallclock set to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf, so
presumably I'll be okay in that respect?
