hwclock has life of its own

[Aurel Wisse]

I just did some more digging into TLDP and found this
link: http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/time.txt

This seems to say that the UTC parameter of the
/etc/sysconfig/clock script is used by
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/init.d/halt in order to
pass the correct parameter to hwclock --hctosys at
boot time and hwclock --systohc at shutdown.

I think that the fact that both clock -r and clock -r
--utc come up with the same time in your context is
because, probably, the third line in your /etc/adjtime
is UTC. Did you try /sbin/clock -r --localtime, for
fun?

Now, if I keep the hwclock in UTC, as yours, the
problem might be solved. Maybe /sbin/clock -r --utc is
meaningless if the hwclock is in localtime. I would
have to check the source of hwclock.

I'll try tomorrow switching the hwclock to UTC and see
what happens.

Thanks for your help.

Aurel

--- Christopher Murtagh
<christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Aurel Wisse wrote:
> >Thanks Christopher, but unfortunately it doesn't
> work:
> 
>  Hrm... strange. Ok, try this (just to make sure
> your system is
> config'd the same as mine).
> 
>  as root, do the following:
> 
>  cd /etc/
> 
>  rm localtime
> 
>  ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Montreal
> localtime
> 
>  rdate -s time.nrc.ca
> 
>  clock -w
> 
>  reboot
> 
>  then try clock -r and clock -r --utc and see if
> they come up the same 
> (they do on my machine):
> 
> [root@mafalda etc]# /sbin/clock -r
> Wed 29 Jan 2003 12:40:48 PM EST  -0.042178 seconds
> [root@mafalda etc]# /sbin/clock -r --utc
> Wed 29 Jan 2003 12:40:52 PM EST  -0.563314 seconds
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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