[PLUG] Setting the time properly

AthlonRob AthlonRob at data.lm.ro
Thu Sep 12 15:42:55 UTC 2002


On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 05:27, Rich Shepard wrote:
 
>   Does setting UTC=true set the time to that, but correct for the local time
> zone?

You set it to UTC=True if your hardware clock is set to UTC and you want
the operating system to account for that and subtract eight hours from
what the hardware clock reads to tell you what time it is.  How is that
for a long sentance?  :-)

-- 
Rob
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from."
 - Andrew S. Tanenbaum





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