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тАО10-22-2007 03:21 AM
тАО10-22-2007 03:21 AM
Solved! Go to Solution.
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тАО10-22-2007 04:10 AM
тАО10-22-2007 04:10 AM
Re: Time in EFI
You should be able to set the time in EFI with the time command:
time [hh:mm[:ss]]
(Accepts 24hr format)
Regards,
Phil
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тАО10-22-2007 04:16 AM
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Re: Time in EFI
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тАО10-22-2007 04:29 AM
тАО10-22-2007 04:29 AM
Re: Time in EFI
I dont think that I have seen anything in relation to Timezone in EFI.
Can I ask by how many hours it is wrong....and are you in the Netherlands?
I have heard that they are set to GMT, but i might be wrong.
Phil
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тАО10-22-2007 04:32 AM
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Re: Time in EFI
The time from MP always have 5 hours more.
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тАО10-22-2007 05:09 AM
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Re: Time in EFI
UTC time does not observe Daylight Saving Time, so a timestamp that is expressed in terms of UTC is never ambiguous. The operating system has a set of rules to convert time between the UTC time and the local time of any configured time zone.
All Unix-like operating systems convert all time values internally to UTC timezone, and then convert them back to the local timezone for display.
MK
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тАО10-22-2007 06:30 AM
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Re: Time in EFI
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тАО10-22-2007 07:24 AM
тАО10-22-2007 07:24 AM
SolutionFirst, if you set the EFI clock to local time, you must lie to the operating system and say that your timezone is equal to UTC.
This will cause trouble with many things, for example: the "Date:" headers of any email sent out from your system will have a date in them, and when converted from your pseudo-UTC to local time at the destination system, it will seem that your mail has travelled 5 hours back in time. This is a strong indication of junk email (trying to look like the *newest* message in the recipient's in-box), so you don't want that.
Second, and probably more important, is that you cannot use NTP to synchronize your system clock if you lie about your time zone. The NTP protocol is built around UTC time and that cannot be easily changed. If you try to use NTP with a fake timezone, your server's clock will seem to warp 5 hours into the future... because NTP will eventually force your system to the *true* UTC.
In practice, only the sysadmin can ever see the "raw" EFI time. It's simply not worth the effort to try to make it use the local time.
MK
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тАО10-22-2007 07:31 AM
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