>>[[http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-timezone-ppc.html Installation_Guide]]
[[http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/set.html TimePrecision-HOWTO]]
>>===Time & TimeZone===
Ideally set your hwclock & systemclock to UTC and timezone to your location

==Datezone and Timezone==
CentOS, OEL, RHEL date timezone config
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# system-config-date
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==timeconfig==
a nice little text gui thats lets you set your systemclock to UTC and timezone to your location !
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# timeconfig
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automatically equiv to
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# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<mytimeloc> /etc/localtime
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==date==
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$ date
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==hwclock==
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# hwclock --debug
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==howto reset hardware clock from system time==
first set the correct system time
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# date 06070809
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then sync it to (UTC) hardware clock
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# hwclock --utc --systohc
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