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<p>Dear mika and friends,</p>
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<p>okay, the problem with the timezone issue is that grml8 thinks that the bios is indeed set to local time, but in Wien.</p>
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<p>grml8:</p>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic">root@mylap1 ~ # date</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Thu Sep 7 03:09:04 CEST 2006</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">root@mylap1 ~ # tzconfig</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Your current time zone is set to America/New_York</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Do you want to change that? [n]: n</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Your time zone will not be changed</span></p>
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<p>but in grml7:</p>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic">root@grmlap1 ~ # date</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Wed Sep 6 21:31:01 EDT 2006</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">root@grmlap1 ~ # tzconfig</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Your current time zone is set to America/New_York</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic">Do you want to change that? [n]:</span></p>
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<p>Okay, what I want is for the complete system to know that bios is set to NY, all programmes should read time as NY, and when I come home to Klagenfurt or Scotland, allow me to display those times with the gui, as being set off from the system time, which has to be NY.</p>
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<p>This has something to do with the grml2hd setup but what I do not know.</p>
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<p>What it does have to do with the problem as I originally described it is that kde root always takes the time from the system time. Thus, kdm will presume that Vienna/AT is in fact the correct time, then, at reboot, set the hw clock to it.</p>
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<p>This is not desirable, for obvious reasons. Evolution, kontact, the clock screensaver, everything should reflect where I am, not where the install script thinks I should be, whether or not I would rather be there.</p>
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<p>The solution in grml7 was to "no" all the references in time autoconfig.</p>
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<p>Why does this not work in 8?</p>
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<p>Thanks for being so patient.</p>
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<p>Greetings from NY,</p>
<p>M</p>
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<p>-- </p>
<p>"...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them</p>
<p> merely as raw material for some scheme." --Russell</p>
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