====== Timezone ======

Time zones are special settings, which are used to change Universal Time Clock (UTC) to a local time. 

What we need is to install a **tzdata** package. 

<file>
# poldek -u tzdata
</file>
Now edit the **/etc/sysconfig/timezone** file. 

<file>
TIMEZONE="Europe/Warsaw"
</file>
Time zones can be found in **/usr/share/zoneinfo** folder. 

To apply changes - restart a timezone service 

<file>
# service timezone restart
</file>

===== Time Sync =====

If your host BIOS clock is terribly wrong, you can fix the date from Internet:

  * using ''rdate'', a rdate server from [[http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi|here]]: <code>
[root@rescue /pld]# date
Sun Aug  3 03:35:46 CEST 2008
[root@rescue /pld]# rdate -s time-a.nist.gov
[root@rescue /pld]# date
Fri May 15 16:03:19 CEST 2015
</code>
  * using ''ntpdate''

**NB!**: Don't forget to sync Hardware clock:

<code>
[root@rescue /pld]# hwclock                                                                                                                                                        
Sun Aug  3 03:39:30 2008  -0.720527 seconds
[root@rescue /pld]# hwclock --systohc
[root@rescue /pld]# hwclock           
Fri May 15 16:06:11 2015  -0.095274 seconds
[root@rescue /pld]# 
</code>

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