* Martin Yazdzik yazdzik@nyct.net [20060829 17:15]:
I dare not, however, boot out of old grml into new, because new grml is convinced that my hw clock is set to gmt. Since this is a laptop, I need to boot into new grml and tell it that my clock is in NYC, edt, my laptop is, sadly, in NYC, edt, and there is only one time I need to know today, which is the time in NYC.
tz config sets the time to six hours earlier, because it is sure that I must be wrong. I am not. I know where I am.
I have disabled all the time stuff in autoconfig.
There is not point even trying to set up evolution and so on until every app takes its time settings from the system clock, which should take its settings from the cmos clock, which, because we all have to boot into windows once a year, is set to local time.
Did you configure /etc/localtime?
By default it's set to /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/CET, run:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$WHATEVER_YOU_WANT /etc/localtime
to set it according to your needs. If this does not yet fix you problem please show output of the following commands:
grep hwclock /etc/runlevel.conf grep '^UTC' /etc/default/rc cat /etc/timezone
Please find a simple solution to this.
grml itself does nothing else than the stuff behind CONFIG_TIMEZONE [that's config_timezone() in /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions] and is executed in live-cd mode only.
regards, -mika-