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</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
clock is setup.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used

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<title>Configuring the setclock script</title>
<?dbhtml filename="setclock.html" dir="chapter07"?>
<para>This setclock script reads the time from your hardware clock (also
known as BIOS or CMOS clock) and either converts that time to localtime
using the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file (if the hardware clock
is set to GMT) or not (if the hardware clock is already set to localtime).
There is no way to auto-detect whether the hardware clock is set to GMT or
not, so we need to configure that here ourselves.</para>
<para>The setclock script is only for real use when the hardware clock (also
known as BIOS or CMOS clock) isn't set to GMT time. The recommended
setup is setting the hardware clock to GMT and having the time converted
to localtime using the /etc/localtime symbolic link. But if an
OS is run that doesn't understand a clock set to GMT (most notable are
Microsoft OS'es) you may want to set the clock to localtime so that
the time is properly displayed on those OS'es. This script will then
set the kernel time to the hardware clock without converting the time using
the /etc/localtime symlink.</para>
<para>If you want to use this script on your system even if the
hardware clock is set to GMT, then the UTC variable below has to be
changed to the value of <emphasis>1</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Change the value of the <emphasis>UTC</emphasis> variable below to a
<emphasis>0</emphasis> (zero) if your hardware clock is not set to GMT
time.</para>
<para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/sysconfig/clock</filename> by running
the following:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/sysconfig/clock &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/clock
UTC=0
UTC=1
# End /etc/sysconfig/clock
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>