YDL 2.2, hwclock & separate /usr partition: system clock changes btw. reboots

[Henrik Farre]

Yello

On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:23:10 -0700
Jussi-Pekka Mantere <uucee@mac.com> wrote:

> When using a from scratch YDL 2.2 installation I noticed that my system 
> clock kept changing by several hours between reboots. I had set up a 
> separate /usr partition and when rc.sysinit reads the system clock with 
> /sbin/hwclock --hctosys --localtime it doesn't have access to the time 
> zone info as /etc/localtime is a symbolic link to 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/... and the file system isn't mounted when hwclock 
> is run. When hwclock is run at shutdown, now with access to the zone 
> info, it sets the hardware clock off by several hours (delta btw. the 
> current system time zone and UTC.)

I have just been struggeling with the same problem, after upgrading som
packages... thanx this was just what I needed.

-- 
Mvh. / Kind regards 
Henrik Farre < enrique AT obel DOT auc DOT dk >
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