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how to change the Universal Time

Asked by Laurent

I have installed ubuntu 6.0.6. But I found the universal time is not correct.
Here is the system time I got from system:

Your default time zone is set to 'Asia/Chongqing'.
Local time is now: Wed Aug 22 20:50:15 CST 2007.
Universal Time is now: Wed Aug 22 12:50:15 UTC 2007.

The local time should be Wed Aug 22 12:50:15, the universal time should be Wed Aug 22 4:50:15.
How can I configure the system time correctly?
thanks.

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Artem Popov (artfwo) said : 		#1

Hi, Laurent!

You should try setting your system time with any of these commands:
date -s 12:50:15
OR
hwclock --set --date='08/22/07 12:50:15' --localtime

If you also have Windows on your machine, then please check this forum thread on how to sync the clock between the 2 OSes:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2616096

Hope this helps :)

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Laurent (aug-flower) said : 		#2

Hi, Артём Попов:
  Thanks for your answer. I have solved the problem by the method below. It is derived from https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2939
  I think we solved the problem with different way for the same reason.

Ubuntu assumes that your hardware clock is set to UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
I set the hardware clock to use the local time by modifying "/etc/default/rcS".

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# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
UTC=yes
---

Br/

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Artem Popov (artfwo) said : 		#3

Wow, this is even better solution definetly! :)