UTC Setting keeps resetting.... and a small rant...

[itmike]

First off I just started messing with Linux. Mainly doing it for school purposes. I'm dual booting Vista and Fedora 10. I did not catch the tidbit not to use UTC during the install. I noticed my clocks kept changing everytime I went between my OS's. I did a little digging and researching. Found out I need to change the Date and Time to not use UTC time. I found the setting unchecked it, great its fixed reboot go to vista, boom the time is dead wrong. So I resync vista's clock. Reboot into Fedora and well the time is still set wrong. Then I go back to the date and time under administration, look at the setting its checked again. So I unchecked it, click ok even change between the tabs, close it. Then I reopen the date and time, setting has reverted AGAIN. So then I change it back, ok it, and then reboot immediately. Looked at the setting again and it has reverted again. Then I researched some more, found a way to do it from the command prompt as the SU. Did that reboot, still reverting. I think you should be getting the picture by now, no matter how I change that setting or how many times, it reverts to system uses UTC checked.

Like I said I'm mainly doing this for school but so far linux is starting to leave a bitter taste in my mouth. The boot up is slow I got some driver issue going on that holds it up for 10 seconds, something about stabilization. Then the add/remove software app wont actually install anything keeps waiting for other task and I dont have updates or anything else to my knowledge running. Haven't tried to remove anything. Then I run into this clock setting that wont change. You guys really think this is better than M$. Don't get me wrong I love the idea of opensource programs and OS's. This thing is so close to being golden, yet some of the small things just eark me to death. I havent gave up on this yet. I just needed to vent.

I really like Fedora for the most part. I love the virtual desktops, the visuals, and the simplicity for the most part. I didnt have to download any drivers except for my nvidia drivers for the visual effects. It just virtually did everything major properly. My network settings were setup from the get go, I had my email client, office apps, torrent downloader, and just about all my daily computing was set up from the install. Though simple things like adding/removing a program/changing the clock setting. My main thing that I want fixed is the clock. I can handle adding apps thru the terminal no problem. If it wasn't for gaming and small issues I could give up M$ altogether and never worry about buying another OS again. Which would just rock.

If it makes a difference Im using the 64x version.

My system
Intel Core2Quad Q9300 @ 2.5GHZ
6GB Ram
640GB HDD
Geforce 9800GT 512MB

[scottro]

That 10 second thing should be fixed if you run an update

yum update

(It'll bring in a ton of packages actually, but one of them will fix that stablilization thing.)

As for time. After unchecking the thing, make sure that the file /etc/adjtime file says LOCAL

If it doesn't, then manually edit it, changing that UTC to LOCAL

Now, I've only run into this with Ubuntu, because their standard CD doesn't give you the chance to choose whether it's local or UTC. Fedora does give you the chance during installation, but many people miss it.

The thing is, that it will set the system (that is, the computer's BIOS) time to its time. So, assuming it works the way Ubuntu did for me, do this. (If it doesn't work that way, I'm only costing you a few extra minutes)

Set the time to local as you've done, and then check that /etc/adjtime. Assuming they're both correct, and that the time is also set correctly on your system, shut down.

Now, when you boot up, before going into Fedora, go into your system's BIOS and make sure that the time is set to local, not UTC. What I found with Ubuntu (and with that, the only thing to do was edit /etc/defaults/rcS) was that even though I changed it and reset the time, it would still, before one reboot, set the BIOS to UTC.

So, once your BIOS is definitely set to local time, hit F10 to save its settings (as a rule, anyway, the majority of BIOS use that as save and exit) and boot into Fedora. The time should be correct.

Then, boot into WIndows and make sure that its time is also set to local. If not, and you have to change it, then do so and again reboot, again checking the BIOS. (I don't know if Windows will reset the BIOS time or not.)

Cumbersome as that is, it should fix the issue.

(In general, during installation, you choose to uncheck the box--similar to what you're seeing-- for UTC, which is the default., then you odn't run into that particular issue.)

Hope this helps