How to Keep Hardware Clock in Local Time

If you dual boot or multiple boot different systems (Linux/Windows), you should keep your system clock in local time meaning you want to disable UTC; otherwise, the clock will be inconsistent between different systems.

Fedora/Red Hat systems:

newemachine# vi /etc/sysconfig/clock

Change 'True' to 'False' in the line where it says 'UTC=True'

Ubuntu/Debian Systems:

newemachine# vi /etc/default/rcS

Change 'yes' to 'no' in the line where it says 'UTC=yes'

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