[Cialug] Annoying time problems on Gentoo/Windows dual boot

[David Champion]

Tony Bibbs wrote:
> /etc/timezone points to America/Chicago under Gentoo
> 
> Windows timezone is set to central time so all seems great.
> 
> However, the time is off for one if I correct it in the other.  I can't 
> remember exactly how much off but it's 8-12 hours from what I recall.
> 
> Anyway, the answer to this has to be easy...what is it?

In RH / Mandrake, there's an option to "set system clock to GMT" in the 
timeconfig gui (stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock as UTC=true). You DON'T 
want to do this if you're dual-booting with Windows. This may be the 
source of the problem for you... I have no clue where that config option 
would be under Gentoo.

-dc