hwclock has life of its own

[Geert Janssens]

I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, so maybe I am 
repeating things.

There are two more things that possibly interfere with the clock setting:
1. If the /usr is a separate partition from /, hwclock doesn't find the 
locale time settings during boot. This is because when the clock gets 
set during boot, only the root partition is mounted. This was discussed 
earlier on this list, and a problem I personally experienced.

2. MacOS stores time differently in firmware compared to linux. I don't 
know the exact details anymore, but I believe MacOS stores localtime, 
while linux stores universal time (UTC ?). This means that when you 
switch OS's, and you correct time in that OS, the time in the other OS 
gets wrong. I believe this was discussed on the Mac-On-Linux mailing list.

Maybe neither of these is at hand here. But I hope it helps.

Regards,
Geert

Christopher Murtagh 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
>