Friday, April 9, 2010

Make Linux use local time

If you have dual boot (windows/linux) and every time you switch from Linux to Windows your computer clock is wrong, it is because Linux is set by default to use UTC and Windows is set by default to use your local time zone's time (i.e. EDT, PST, etc).

To make your Ubuntu system read the hardware clock as 'local' :

1: edit /etc/default/rcS
2: add or change the following section:

# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT)
UTC=no


REF: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

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