Configuring the setclock script
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## Configuring the setclock script

This setclock script reads the time from your hardware clock, also known as BIOS or CMOS (Complementry Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) clock, and either converts that time to localtime using the `/etc/localtime` 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.

Change the value of the UTC variable below to a 0 (zero) if your hardware clock is not set to GMT time.

Create a new file `/etc/sysconfig/clock` by running the following:

    cat > /etc/sysconfig/clock << "EOF"
    # Begin /etc/sysconfig/clock

    UTC=1

    # End /etc/sysconfig/clock
    EOF

Now, you may want to take a look at a very good hint explaining how we deal with time on LFS at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/time.txt. It explains issues such as time zones, UTC, and the TZ environment variable.

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