Clock?

[Jerry Van Baren]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> 
>> FWIIW, the hardware clock configuration is set to use localtime by 
>> default.  This can be reconfigured to use UTC (see /etc/rc.sysinit which 
>> includes the config file /etc/sysconfig/clock if it exists), but it 
>> probably isn't worth the effort.
> 
> From hwclock's man page:
> 
>   If you specify neither --utc nor --localtime , the default is whichever was  specified  the  last  time
>   hwclock  was  used  to set the clock (i.e. hwclock was successfully run with the --set , --systohc , or
>   --adjust options), as recorded in the adjtime file.  If the adjtime file doesn't exist, the default  is
>   local time.
> 
> So the first time you set the hwclock with --utc, it will
> be kept that way.

Hmmm, odd.  After setting the hwclock with --utc, my /etc/adjtime has 
"UTC" but, when I cycled power, my system clock was off by my timezone.
Ahh, my /etc/adjtime has "0" instead of "UTC" on the second line.

OK, setting my hwclock to utc shows /etc/adjtime has "UTC", but after 
rebooting it gets reset to "0" (localtime), causing the incorrect time 
offset.

gvb