Where's the time?

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:22:42PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote

> At some time lately the MB clock got pushed ahead 5 hrs.  Reset it
> and all is well.
> 
> Never was much good at diagnostics, until someone gets me thinking
> in straight lines.

  UTC (aka GMT) is 5 hours ahead of EST.  Check whether...
  1) your BIOS is reporting UTC rather than EST
  2) your linux settings are looking for UTC rather than EST

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eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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